Twenty years after it first offered a bold and prophetic critique of global economic injustice, the Accra Confession remains a clarion call for churches seeking to live faithfully amid deepening climate crisis, inequality, and systemic violence.

This week, the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) has released a new theological reflection titled “Accra +20 Consultation: Celebrate, Confess, Covenant – Reflections 2025”. The publication marks two decades since the confession’s adoption in Accra, Ghana, in 2004 — and renews the commitment of the global Reformed family to pursue economic, ecological, and gender justice as a matter of core discipleship.

“When it was first released, twenty-one years ago, the Accra Confession was both prophetic and controversial,” writes Rev. Dr. Setri Nyomi, WCRC’s General Secretary. “Today, we are living amidst a climate catastrophe, and the Accra Confession continues to invigorate the praxis and thinking of the churches.”

Originally written in the wake of intense reflection on the impacts of globalization, the 2004 confession named the global neoliberal economic system as idolatrous and sinful. It drew on the lived experiences of people suffering under economic exploitation and ecological degradation and positioned justice not as a side concern, but as central to Christian faith.

Now, in “Accra +20 Consultation: Celebrate, Confess, Covenant – Reflections 2025,” the WCRC builds on that prophetic legacy. The new publication brings together theological reflections, analysis, and testimonies from across the Communion, seeking not only to commemorate, but to critically deepen the Confession’s commitments.

“This is not merely an anniversary. It is a reckoning,” the introduction reads. “We are called to confess once again — not only the sins of the world, but the silences of the church.”

The document acknowledges where the original Confession fell short — especially in naming the interconnected violences of colonialism, patriarchy, racism, and gender-based oppression. It challenges the global church to reject complicity in these systems and to take up a radical, intersectional praxis of resistance.

At the heart of the publication lies a renewed covenant:

• To stand with those most affected by climate injustice and economic exclusion;
• To elevate the voices and theologies of the Global South, Indigenous communities, and gender-diverse leaders;
• To challenge structures of empire, extraction, and exclusion — both within and beyond the church.

“This is a time to resist, to disrupt, to live and act otherwise,” the document proclaims. “Another world is not only possible — it is necessary, and it is breaking in now.”

“Accra +20 Consultation: Celebrate, Confess, Covenant – Reflections 2025” is available now through the WCRC Resources and includes the original 2004 Accra Confession, the Accra +10 reflection, and the newly released Accra +20 statement.

In a world increasingly marked by division and despair, the Reformed family’s voice is clear: faithfulness demands justice — for the Earth, for the poor, and for all who are marginalized by systems of death.