Tamte, Karen

Karen (Bevis) Tamte is a pediatrician living in the Twin Cities and attends Awaken Community Church. A fourth-generation Covenanter, she and her husband Peter are graduates of Minnehaha Academy ’85 and North Park University ’89.

A traumatic uprooting (Spring/Summer 2025)

This June marked six years since First Covenant Church of Minneapolis was expelled from the Evangelical Covenant Church for their welcoming position on gay marriage in 2019. It is also two years since another Twin Cities church, Awaken Community, was expelled for the same reason. Those events were also the beginning of my exit from my own church of over 40 years, Excelsior Covenant. For myself and many Covenanters, the change of character in our denomination revealed by these events was a traumatic uprooting.