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Confirm Not Conform
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Confirm Not Conform is a comprehensive confirmation program that encourages youth to explore, articulate, & own their faith—by the study & practice of Scripture, sacraments, creeds, prayer & service, & the study of other religions, denominations, & heresy.
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Confirm Not Conform @confirmnotconform.bsky.social · May 5
Confirm Not Conform is built on the belief that the Christian faith can withstand honest examination. It prioritizes formation over mere information, values questions more than predefined answers, and empowers youth to lead and teach.
📕🕯️🏳️‍🌈⚧️🏳️‍⚓ #PCUSA #ELCA #UMC #UCC #BIPOC
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Books of Common Prayer are given to Confirm Not Conform graduates by their mentors in this Episcopal church.
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Save $50 at the Progressive Youth Ministry (PYM) Conference Nov. 13-15 in Austin TX—where Confirm Not Conform's Sarah Jones and Kellor Smith will be part of a panel workshop, "Reimagining Confirmation for a New Generation."

To save $50, use code PYMWITHCNC2025 to register at pym.events/2025.
Save $50 at the Progressive Youth Ministry Conference (PYM) coming up quickly in Austin, Texas, November 13-15. Use code PYMWITHCNC2025 to register at https://pym.events/2025. Confirm Not Conform's Sarah Jones and Kellor Smith will be part of an interactive panel workshop, "Reimagining Confirmation for a New Generation".
October 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Confirm Not Conform aims to be universal and adaptable, yet every mainline church has specific differences that instructors will want to highlight. Our "Denomination Customization Guide" provides resources for each.
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Graphic showing "Episcopal — Lutheran — Methodist — United Church of Christ — Presbyterian". These are the mainline progressive denominations for which Confirm Not Conform provides customization resources. Screenshot of the Introduction to the "Denomination Customization Guide".
July 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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"Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours.
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Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good; Yours are the hands with which he is to bless people now."
—Teresa of Avila
✝️ 🙏📖📕🕯️🏳️‍🌈⚧️🏳️‍🔥⚓🚪 #PCUSA #ELCA #UMC #UCC #BIPOC #LGBTQIA2S+ www.confirmnotconform.com
screenshot: first page of "Lesson 9: The Power to Help"—which explains the theological basis for the lesson, as well as targeted outcomes. Photograph of a youth playing tag with a child at a summer camp for urban youth.
July 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Ntuala, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Seneca Falls, embarked June 29 on a 78-mile trek to the ICE detention center in Batavia, where she hopes to arrive the morning of July 2 in time to join a peaceful protest.
NY pastor’s long walk for refugees and human rights gains support across Finger Lakes
“I’ve not lost anything, except maybe the feeling in my feet."
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July 3, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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"This lesson celebrates the courage and complexity of heresy and opens the youth up to the idea that they, too, might be heretics who can change the world for the better."
—From the introduction to Lesson 3: Your Truth

✝️ 🙏📖📕🕯️🏳️‍🌈⚧️🌈🏳️‍🔥⚓🚪 #PCUSA #ELCA #UMC #UCC #BIPOC #LGBTQIA2S+ www.confirmnotconform.com
[screenshot: first page of "Lesson 3: Your Truth"—which gives the Theological Statement underpinning the lesson.] [screenshot: "Timeline for Lesson," showing timeframe, duration and description of each lesson activity.]
July 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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All people of faith are called to bear witness and to speak truth to power. Confirm Not Conform offers guidance and praxis in both. "Lesson 14: May We Present…" involves choosing a project and arguing its value to church leaders.
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Lesson 14: May We Present… Theological Statement, plus basis for the lesson, life lessons and skills addressed
June 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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“We were thrilled that all of our confirmands made the decision to proceed with the Rite of Confirmation. 😀 … We enjoyed using the updated curriculum and had some wonderful conversations throughout the year.” —Pastor Funk, Slatingon, PA
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A youth takes his turn reciting a passage and teaching at the I Confirm Service, holding a candle to keep his hands steady.
June 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Happy Pride Month BlueSky!

Confirm Not Conform unabashedly centers justice, equity, diversity and inclusion for everyone, especially BIPOC and LGBTQIA2S+ youth. Because we all deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.

📕🕯️🏳️‍🌈⚧️🏳️‍⚓ #PCUSA #ELCA #UMC #UCC #LGBTQIA2S+ #BIPOC www.confirmnotconform.com
The Progress Pride Flag by designer Daniel Quasar. Per Wikipedia: "While retaining the common six-stripe rainbow design as a base, the 'Progress' variation adds a chevron along the hoist that features black, brown, light blue, pink, and white stripes to bring those communities (marginalized people of color, trans people, and those living with HIV/AIDS and those who have been lost) to the forefront; 'the arrow points to the right to show forward movement, while being along the left edge shows that progress still needs to be made.’"
May 31, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Happy Pride Month BlueSky!

Confirm Not Conform unabashedly centers justice, equity, diversity and inclusion for everyone, especially BIPOC and LGBTQIA2S+ youth. Because we all deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.

📕🕯️🏳️‍🌈⚧️🏳️‍⚓ #PCUSA #ELCA #UMC #UCC #LGBTQIA2S+ #BIPOC www.confirmnotconform.com
The Progress Pride Flag by designer Daniel Quasar. Per Wikipedia: "While retaining the common six-stripe rainbow design as a base, the 'Progress' variation adds a chevron along the hoist that features black, brown, light blue, pink, and white stripes to bring those communities (marginalized people of color, trans people, and those living with HIV/AIDS and those who have been lost) to the forefront; 'the arrow points to the right to show forward movement, while being along the left edge shows that progress still needs to be made.’"
May 31, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Join us! Sunday, June 1 at 6pm ET / 3pm PT — a service to bless and commission Episcopalians who will share God's love at Pride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ events across the church.

TransEpiscopal’s own The Rev. Dr. Cameron Partridge will preach and Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe will preside. ⚓️

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Episcopal shield in progress Pride colors with the words: Pride Eucharist with Blessing and Commissioning Chapel of Christ the Lord 815 2nd Ave, New York and Streaming Online Sunday, June 1, 2025
May 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Right now a church in New Jersey is fighting for their survival because the town’s mayor wants to take their prime real estate by eminent domain. The mayor says the town needs more parkland.
May 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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“I want to be very clear about why we made this decision…. It has been painful to watch one group of refugees, selected in a highly unusual manner, receive preferential treatment over many others who have been waiting in refugee camps or dangerous conditions for years.”
—Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe
Episcopal Church halts refugee partnership with feds over white South Africans
The Episcopal Church has halted a refugee resettlement program with the federal government over the prioritization of white South Africans while other populations see their immigration protections …
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May 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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In a living, evolving process that fosters deep reflection and dialogue, Confirm Not Conform empowers the entire church community to help integrate youth into the church’s mission and ministry—as vital members of the congregation.
📕🕯️🏳️‍🌈⚧️🏳️‍⚓ #PCUSA #ELCA #UMC #UCC #BIPOC www.confirmnotconform.com
Members of the congregation lay hands in blessing on all those who have graduated from Confirm Not Conform—whether they have chosen to be confirmed or not.
May 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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there's no stopping the Latin American meme machine
May 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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More historic than realized. ⚓
#Pope
May 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Confirm Not Conform is built on the belief that the Christian faith can withstand honest examination. It prioritizes formation over mere information, values questions more than predefined answers, and empowers youth to lead and teach.
📕🕯️🏳️‍🌈⚧️🏳️‍⚓ #PCUSA #ELCA #UMC #UCC #BIPOC
www.confirmnotconform.com
Books of Common Prayer are given to Confirm Not Conform graduates by their mentors in this Episcopal church.
May 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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They Live (1988) // # S1R of S6
'The Episcopal Free Church'
Reverse of Card #S1 of S6, They Live (1988) with trivia and a description of the scene.
April 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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We have also found that many today are more suspect of easy answers than of difficult questions.‍

"[W]hat she found was not a faith that answered life’s dilemmas, but a very different kind of engagement: one that gave space for doubt, rebellion, and ambiguity.”

📕🕯️🏳️‍🌈⚧️🏳️‍⚓ #PCUSA #ELCA #UMC #UCC #BIPOC
April 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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"To conflate Jews with the state is very dangerous, and what it ends up doing, in a really perverse way, is it dehumanizes Palestinians. "
Has Zionism Become an Idol?
In his book Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning, Peter Beinart argues that worshipping the state of Israel elevates Jews over Palestinians.
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April 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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The 'Jesus Christ Superstar' film isn't just an adaptation of a musical. It's a meta-commentary on the very act of retelling the Passion. Prepare for a rewatch.
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A wide shot from the film Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) shows a group of people, dressed in casual clothing and some theatrical costumes, boarding a silver bus in a rocky, desert-like location. The sun is setting, casting a warm light over the scene. A man in a pink top and sunglasses is in the foreground, leaning against the bus and looking to the left.
April 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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We are living through unstable times, when a confirmation program like Confirm Not Conform is especially valuable. When we honestly examine and separate creed from dogma, our mutual exercise of inquiry, reflection and discernment
April 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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"[It] granted 'liberty of conscience' according to the 'custom and manner of Holland' to the new residents of Flushing. The religious openness attracted European immigrants fleeing persecution, including French Huguenots, Swedish Lutherans, and Portuguese Jews."
wordandway.bsky.social Word&Way @wordandway.bsky.social · Apr 9
Though most people know about the First Amendment, few outside of Colonial history enthusiasts know of the Remonstrance — considered the blueprint for religious freedom in the U.S.
Flushing Remonstrance on Display for First Time in 7 Years at New York Public Library - Word&Way
The 17th-century letter is widely considered to have inspired the religious freedom clause in the First Amendment.
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April 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Hello non-conformers!

My name is Sarah Jones and I am the new face of Confirm Not Conform—which underwent a substantive updating in 2024. An update to the adult version is in progress, and a Spanish version is in the works as well!

#Confirmation #Confirm #Progressive #Mainline #⚓Narthex
(Here I am acting as co-pilot on a fixed-wing flight over Kauai in 2015.)
March 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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"Go tell that fox."
Whenever Jesus says this, I just want to fist bump him. 🕯
a woman in a blue sweater is smiling while sitting on a couch with a man
ALT: a woman in a blue sweater is smiling while sitting on a couch with a man
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March 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM