FAQ
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is The United Churches of America a denomination?
No.
TUCOA is a unity movement and cooperative network. We are not attempting to create another denomination or ecclesiastical hierarchy.
Does my church have to leave its denomination?
No.
The entire premise of the movement is different houses, one family. Churches remain independent and may retain their existing denominational relationships.
Do participating churches have to agree doctrinally?
No.
A meaningful common Christian foundation is necessary, but denominational distinctives remain with the participating churches themselves.
TUCOA does not exist to resolve every theological dispute in Christianity.
Does “unity” mean doctrine does not matter?
Absolutely not.
Truth matters.
Doctrine matters.
Conscience matters.
We encourage Christians to study, discuss, debate, preach, and defend their convictions.
What we reject is the assumption that every disagreement requires hostility or prevents all forms of cooperation.
Is this an interfaith organization?
The United Churches of America is specifically a Christian unity movement centered upon Jesus Christ.
We believe Christians should treat people of every faith—or no faith—with dignity, kindness, and respect, and we may cooperate with others in humanitarian and community efforts.
Our particular mission, however, is reconciliation and cooperation within the Body of Christ.
Is TUCOA political?
TUCOA is not a political party and does not exist to become an appendage of one.
Questions of conscience, religious liberty, human dignity, family, community, technology, war, poverty, surveillance, economics, and government inevitably have public implications.
Our allegiance, however, is to principles rather than political tribes.
If a principle is only important when our preferred political faction benefits from it, it was never truly a principle.
What does TUCOA mean by “Babylon”?
We use Babylon primarily in its biblical and archetypal sense: human systems of power that become idolatrous, exploitative, coercive, dehumanizing, or demand allegiance that properly belongs to the Creator.
We do not use “Babylon” as a synonym for one political party, government, corporation, or technology.
Any institution—including a religious institution—can reproduce Babylonian patterns when power becomes more important than people.
Does TUCOA believe digital technology is the “Mark of the Beast”?
The United Churches of America does not require a particular interpretation of Revelation as a condition of participation.
Christians have held differing preterist, historicist, futurist, idealist, and combined interpretations of Revelation.
We do believe Revelation raises an enduring warning about the convergence of political power, economic participation, identity, worship, and allegiance.
For that reason, Christians should take seriously questions involving surveillance, privacy, biometric identification, centralized digital identity, financial exclusion, artificial intelligence, and technologies capable of making basic participation in society conditional upon institutional permission.
The issue is not fear of technology.
The issue is human dignity, conscience, and the concentration of power.
What does “building the Kingdom” mean?
It means living according to the values Jesus taught while actively making our communities better.
Feed people.
Help families.
Forgive enemies.
Care for the vulnerable.
Create community.
Protect and honor conscience and natural, unalienable God-given rights.
Practice generosity.
Build peace.
Speak truth.
Heal divisions.
Be a good neighbor.
The Kingdom is not merely something to debate.
It is something Christians are called to demonstrate.