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Examining the “Ecology” (and Ecclesiology?) of the ELCA

My blogging friend Erik (koinonia, @erikullestad) recently wrote a post about a new ELCA task force of which he is a member:  “Living Into the Future Together (LIFT): Renewing The Ecology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America”.  From a November 19, 2009 ELCA press release we learn that "the task force will examine theContinue reading “Examining the “Ecology” (and Ecclesiology?) of the ELCA”

Addressing the Churchwide Assembly in today’s sermon

"Does this offend you?" Jesus asks. Many were offended this week in Minneapolis at the Lutheran Church's biennial Churchwide Assembly. Many of the pastors and lay people who gathered this week in Minneapolis took offense at a church that seemed to be leaving them behind, going in a direction with which they could not agree,Continue reading “Addressing the Churchwide Assembly in today’s sermon”