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St. Francis Lutheran Church, San Francisco, will celebrate its first "Feast of Hope" worship Dec. 27, in celebration of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Churchwide Assembly decision directing changes in ministry policies. The Rev. Anita Hill, pastor of St. Paul-Reformation Church, Minneapolis, will serve as guest preacher. Since 1995 the congregation has held a "Feast of Expulsion" in late December, commemorating the date when...
- Clear Lake church leaves ELCA over gay pastors (iowaindependent.com)
- SC Lutherans will stay (q-notes.com)
Led by a Palestinian Lutheran bishop, 16 Palestinians Christians have blasted Israel in a new declaration that the 4.9 million Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is obligingly disseminating. “We…declare that the Israeli occupation of ...
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- Lutherans Denounce Israel, Just in Time for Christmas – Mark D. Tooley (docstalk.blogspot.com)
Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America presented this Christmas message:
“But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us” (Titus 3:4-5a). read more
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- Dissident Lutherans: bullying over gays (freerepublic.com)
- US Lutherans join reflection and advocacy for World AIDS Day (ekklesia.co.uk)
- Decision on Gays Roils Lutherans (freerepublic.com)
Got an unusual press release last week. It began: “On Sunday, December 13, 2009, St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in La Mesa, Calif., held a legally called and conducted meeting to take its second and final vote to sever ties with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).... St. Luke’s is ...
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- Arts forum slated for Thursday at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church (publicopiniononline.com)
- South Carolina ELCA Congregation's Christmas Eve Worship on TV and Web (archive.elca.org)
WASHINGTON (ELCA) -- In a Dec. 16 letter to U.S. President Barack
Obama, a caucus of Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) bishops
acknowledged economic challenges and suggested opportunities for job
creation. The group met with Martha Coven, special assistant to the
president for mobility and opportunity policy, to present the letter and
discuss the status of hunger and economic insecurity in the United States.
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- Lutheran Bishops Offer Ideas to White House to Stir Economy (archive.elca.org)
- ELCA Leaders Appear in ABC-TV Program on Faith and Disabilities (archive.elca.org)
Evangelical Church Opens Doors Fully To Gays Renegade pastor in Denver finds new followers, but makes enemies too DENVER - The auditorium lights turned low, the service begins with the familiar rhythms of church: children singing, hugs and handshakes of greeting, a plea for donations to fix the boiler. Then the 55-year-old pastor with spiked gray hair and blue jeans launches into his weekly welcome, a poem-like litany that includes the line...
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At its churchwide convention in August, the ELCA lifted its ban on partnered gay and lesbian clergy, prompting some traditional congregations to withhold funds and begin forming a separate denomination. But Hanson insisted the ELCA can accommodate ...
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- ELCA Presiding Bishop Addresses Variety of Subjects in Town Hall Forum (archive.elca.org)
