From freerepublic.com
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Hurt by the recession and decisions by some Lutheran congregations to withhold their support, the Chicago-based Evangelical Lutheran Church in America acted last Sunday to reduce its budget by 10 percent and eliminate more than 40 full-time positions. Many Lutheran congregations, including some in Rowan County, have redirected their mission support to the ELCA in protest of the national organization's recent vote to allow gays and lesbians to...
- Sexually Active Gay Pastors Divide Lutherans (feedburner.com)
A conservative faction has begun forming a new Lutheran church body separate from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in response to an August vote allowing sexually active gay and lesbian pastors to serve as clergy.
From drudge.com
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- New Lutheran body to form aftergay pastor vote (feedburner.com)
- New Lutheran body to form after gay pastor vote (miamiherald.typepad.com)
Battle lines have sharpened over sexually active gay clergy in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America after a conservative faction decided to form a new network of churches, and the first two southeastern Minnesota congregations have voted to leave the ELCA.
From development.postbulletin.com
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- Lutheran CORE moves quickly to form new denomination (online.worldmag.com)
- Disgruntled Lutherans vow to have a new denomination ready by August (rss.mnginteractive.com)
The Episcopal Church has less than half the membership of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. But the former gets much more media coverage than the ELCA. But both are experiencing division under similar circumstances. Both churches have lost significant numbers of members in recent years, with congregations occasionally deciding to leave as a unit. And the problems in both churches deal with how the denomination interprets Scripture...
From feedburner.com
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- Open Letter to ELCA Members (freerepublic.com)
The children who attend Mrs. Semmig three-year-old class in St. David’s Evangelical Lutheran Church’s Christian Preschool are shown discussing their circle time story. Semmig says that the children really like to talk about the stories that are read. She added that the children come up with some very interesting questions. read more
From massapequapost.com
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- ELCA Council Approves Charter, Hears Secretary's Report, Elects Leaders (freerepublic.com)
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Declaring that Gods mission is serious work that
calls for serious commitment, the presiding bishop of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) spelled out priorities for the ELCA
churchwide organization in an open letter to members released Nov. 19.
The Rev. Mark S. Hanson also invited them to join him in an online town
hall forum Dec. 6 at 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time (4:30 p.m. CST).
From wfn.org
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- ELCA Presiding Bishop Sends Open Letter to Members, Announces Online Forum (archive.elca.org)
- ELCA Presiding Bishop Addresses Leadership, Financial Issues (archive.elca.org)
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No, Jesus did not mean it when he said "love thy brother." That's why the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, after voting in August to not TOTALLY FREAK OUT if churches approved gay clergy, is seeing even more churches looking to split off. The conservative group Lutheran CORE, having already floated a doomsday scenario, is [...]
From feedburner.com
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- Lutheran Line Up for Form Awesome New Anti-Gay Church Body (feedburner.com)
