Topical Index

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Each topic is followed by a list of related articles.

Topic (web pages have links)	Title		Link (most recent to oldest)
Abortion / Life	– NALC Life Conference – January 28th, 2021 – Bethesda: All People are Wonderfully Made – How to Tactfully Navigate Conversations About Your Christian Faith – March for Life 2020 – The ELCA’s Presiding Bishop Tiptoes Through the Abortion Minefield – Bishop Eaton’s Slippery Use of Language in Her Letter Regarding Abortion – Abortion Letter to Bishops – NALC Life Conference and March for Life – March for Life 2019 (before the March) – Marching for Life in 2018 – Real Churches “Still” Don’t Kill Babies – Why Are Some “The Unmentionables” — Response to Bishop Eaton – Letter from Bishop Eaton – March On – Pastor Gjerde’s Letter Asking Bishop Eaton to Stand Against Abortion		– Jan 2021 – May 2020 – Mar 2020 – Jan 2020 – July 2019 – June 2019 – Feb 2019 – Feb 2019 – Jan 2019 – March 2018 – Nov 2018 – Epiphany 2018 – Epiphany 2018 – Thanksgiving 2017 – April 2017
Absolution	– Lutheran Renewal And The Absolution		– Nov 2019
Aging Lutherans (AKA Assets)	– February 2020 Letter from the Director – Handing Over the Keys – Every Eight Seconds…		– Feb 2020 – Nov 2019 – Lent 2018
American Lutheran Publishing Bureau (ALPB)	– The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit		– Jan 2021
Apologetics (defending the faith)	– How to Tactfully Navigate Conversations About Your Christian Faith – Not Here to Be Boiled – What’s a Christian to Do? Responding to Inconsistent, Illogical Ill-wit – Everyday Apologetics – Conversation with Unbelievers: Leading with the Love of Jesus – Sharing the (Not So) Good News		– Mar 2020 – Nov 2019 – Mar 2019 – Nov 2018 – Sep 2018 – Summer 2018
The Bible	– The Bible as the Word of God		– July 2021
Commence-ment Address	– The Power of the Word of God		– Sep 2019
Confessing	– What is Confessing?		– March 2019
Congregations in Transition (CiT)	– Grateful Client’s Experience with CiT – Your Online Presence Matters! – Lutheran CORE’s CIT Coaching Ministry: Now Available in a Second, Online Version – Intentional Interim Ministry – CiT Helps Churches – Coaches for Congregations in Transition – A 1st Century Mission Model for the 21st Century – Congregations in Transition: Three Scenarios – Congregations in Transition Ministry Initiative – Congregations in Transition Ministry Initiative		– Mar 2021 – July 2020 – Mar 2020 – Oct 2019 – July 2019 – May 2019 – Mar 2019 – Jan 2019 – Late Nov 2018 and Nov 2018 – Oct. 2018
Connecting the Orthodox	– Resources for Congregations – Sermons, Clergy Connect, and Congregations in Transition – Seeking Survey Input – Helping Orthodox Pastors and Orthodox Congregations Connect		– May 2021 – July 2019 – Thanksgiving 2017
Common Ground Network	– CORE is Your Voice in Renewal Movements across North America		– Thanksgiving 2017
Critical Theory	– Critical Race Theory (CRT) V. The Cross of Redemption and Transformation – Christ-Less Christianity –The Heresy of False Eschatology – The Christian Alternative to Critical Race Theory – What is Contemporary Critical Theory		– July 2021 – Nov 2021 – Sep 2020 – Sep 2020 – Sep 2020
Clergy Supply Crisis	– Is My Pastor About to Quit? – New Year Reflection on Our Future as a Church – See also Pastoral Formation row		– Sep 2020 – Jan 2020
Diversity	– Obsessed With Diversity		– Nov 2019
Divisive	– No Political Divisiveness		– Aug 2020
ELCA Church Council	– Is the ELCA Church Council Out of Touch with Reality?		– Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
ELCA Churchwide Assembly (CWA)	CWA Reflections: God has a way of Sorting His Church		– Sep 2019
ELCA Decline	– How Is This Woke Agenda Working for You? – Not OK and a New Low – Letter from the Director – February 2021 – ELCA Displays Misplaced Values and Priorities – You Reap Whatever You Sow – A Sharp Contrast – Spirit, Flesh, and Dr. Jesus – Thanks Be to God! Memoirs of a Practical Theologian by Robert Benne – New Year Reflection on Our Future as a Church – Obsessed with Diversity – Handing Over the Keys		– Mar 2021 – Feb 2021 – Feb 2021 – Jan 2021 – Nov 2020 – Nov 2020 – Nov 2021 – Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 – Nov 2019 – Nov 2019
ELCA and/or LGBTQIA+ Agenda * see also Same Sex Marriage	– What Does Reconciling Works Want? – Letter from the Director – April 2021 – Not OK and a New Low – Letter from the Director – February 2021 – The Key Question Remains Unanswered –How the Revisionists Re-Framed Critical Race Theory – Don’t Be Led Astray – ELCA: Answer the Question! – Part 2 – Reflections on the Augsburg Confession – Part 2 – Obsessed with Diversity – ELCA: Answer the Question! – Reflections on the Augsburg Confession – What Will It Be Next? Part 2 – What Will It Be Next? – Pithy Responses to CORE’s April Letter from the Director		– July 2021 – April 2021 – Feb 2021 – Feb 2021 – Sep 2020 – Sep 2020 – July 2020 – Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 –Nov 2019 – Nov 2019 – Nov 2019 – Sep 2019 – July 2019 – May 2019
ELCA (some good programs)	– Encuentro Recap 2019 – Appeal for Prayer and Mission Partners – Seeking Ministry Partners – The Uncle Charlie Program @ St. Timothy – What Happened to Timothy? (Nexus Institute – Theology training for Youth) Note: See also the other Encuentro articles below		– Nov 2019 – July 2019 – June 2019 – May 2019 – Easter 2018
ELCA Political Advocacy	– ELCA Support for the Equality Act: What Does It Mean? – Reflections on the Augsburg Confession, Part 4		– May 2021 – May 2020
ELCA Presiding Bishop	– Mountain Lion Cubs Do Not Stay Mountain Lion Cubs – Letter from the Director, August 2020 – Is ELCA PB Eaton Losing Touch with Reality?		– May 2021 – Aug 2020 – March 2019
ELCA Seminaries	– ELCA Seminaries After CWA 2009: What a Difference a Day Makes – Response from Bp. Eaton – Is There Room for Traditional Candidates at ELCA Seminaries? – “Please, Lord, Spare the Congregations” – ELCA Does Not Honor Its Own Commitments – Farewell (Steve Shipman’s Farewell blast) – CORE Response to “Naked and Unashamed”		– Nov 2018 – Sep 2018 – Sep 2018 – Aug 2018 – Lent 2018 – Lent 2018 – April 2017
ELCA Social Statement: Women & Justice	– Postmodernism Gone Viral, Part 3 – Postmodernism Gone Viral, Part 2 – Postmodernism Gone Viral: What is Disingenuous About The ELCA Social Statement (Jenkins) [See Also Postmodernism] – ELCA Draft Social Statement: My Response to “Women and Justice” (Ammlung) – Scriptural Authority to Suffer Another ELCA Blow in 2019? (Gjerde)		– Sep 2019 – July 2019 – May 2019 – Jan 2019 – July 2018
ELCA Synod	– Letter to the ELCA’s Upper Susquehanna Synod		– March 2019
ELCA Youth Gathering	– The ELCA Breaks Trust – Lutheran CORE Receives Response (Sort Of) from ELCA Presiding Bishop – Letter to Bishop Eaton – A Lament for the ELCA		– July 2018 – Sep 2018 – July 2018 – Summer 2018
Evangelism	– How to Tactfully Navigate Conversations About Your Christian Faith		– Mar 2020
Faith	– How to Tactfully Navigate Conversations About Your Christian Faith		– Mar 2020
Encuentro (Encounter)	– The Nations at Our Doorstep – Enfleshed Word / Verbo Encarnado – 2020 Encuentro – Recap of Encuentro 2019 – Neighborhood Outreach – Annual Chicago Encuentro Set For Holy Cross Day, Sept 14th – Save the Date! – Encuentro 2018: “Fight the Good Fight of Faith / Pelea La Buena Batalla De La Fe” – Make the Most of Every Opportunity (paragraph 3) – Encuentro 2018 (pre-event) – Come, Holy Spirit, Come! ¡VEN SANTO ESPÍRITU!		– Sep 2020 – May 2020 – Nov 2019 – Sep 2019 – Sep 2019 – July 2019 – Nov 2018 – Oct 2018 – Sep 2018 – Easter 2018
Forgiveness	– Why They May Not Hear You – Reflections On The Augsburg Confession – Lutheran Renewal And The Absolution		– Mar 2020 – Nov 2019 – Nov 2019
God	– “I Can’t Possibly Believe” in a God Who Would Send Anyone to Hell!		– Easter 2018
Gospel	– This Crisis Calls for Unity in Christ – Reflections on the Augsburg Confession, Part 4 – Why They May Not Hear You – True Unity: Reflections on the Augsburg Confession, Part 3 – Reflections on the Augsburg Confession – Part 2 – Reflections On the Augsburg Confession		– July 2020 – May 2020 – Mar 2020 – Mar 2020 – Jan 2020 – Nov 2019
Global Lutheran Forum	– CORE’s Take: Global Confessional and Missional Lutheran Forum		– Nov 2018
Global Mission	– Global Missions 2021: How Did We Get Here … What Now? – Celebrating Global Mission		– July 2021 – July 2021
Healthy Church	– Your Online Ministry Presence Matters! – Through the Statistics, I died to the Statistics		– July 2020 – Thanksgiving 2017
Heresy	– Christ-Less Christianity – The Heresy of False Eschatology – The Christian Alternative to Critical Race Theory		– Nov 2020 – Sep 2020 – Sep 2020
International Partners	– Lutheran CORE Nurtures Global Connections – Lutheran CORE Develops International Connections		– Summer 2018 – Easter 2018
Law	A Sharp Contrast		– Nov 2020
Institute of Lutheran Theology (ILT)	– The Institute of Lutheran Theology: Ten Years and Counting, part 2 – The Institute of Lutheran Theology: Ten Years and Counting, Part 1 of 2		– Lent 2018 – Epiphany 2018
List of Online Church Services	List of Online Church Services (Livestreams and Recorded)		Mar 2020
Lutheranism	– Lutheran Renewal and the Absolution		Nov 2019
Lutheran CORE’s Accomplishments and Plans	– Looking Back upon 2018 and Forward to 2019		– Feb. 2019
Lutherans for Life (LFL)	– Meet Lutherans for Life in St. Louis at the 2018 National Conference! – See also Abortion/Life category		– Sep 2018
Ministry	– Brother Hub Helps Sister Spoke: Everyone Wins – When Congregational Ministries Might Need to Move Beyond Clergy – Ministry by Meaningful Conversation – Is My Pastor About to Quit? – Ministry in the Pandemic Era		– July 2021 – July 2021 – Sep 2020 – May 2020
NALC Convocation	– Letter from the Director, August 2021 – Letter from the Director, August 2020 – Indoor vs. Outdoor Christianity – NALC Convocation was Uplifting, Inspiring, and Encouraging		– Aug 2021 – Aug 2020 – Oct 2019 – Sep 2018
NEXUS Institute	– Letter from the Director, August 2021 – Letter from the Director, August 2020 – Thank You – Where Will Our Future Pastors Come From?		– Aug 2021 –Aug 2020 – May 2020 – Mar 2020
North American Lutheran Seminary (NALS)	– The North American Lutheran Seminary in a Nutshell		– Summer 2018
Orthodox	– CORE’s Support to Orthodox ELCA Pastors – Not Here To Be Boiled – CORE’s Support to Orthodox Pastors		– March 2021 – Nov 2019 – March 2019,p. 7
Pandemic	– Letter from the Director – June 2021 – Embracing the Challenges and Opportunities of Worship in the Digital Age – Ministry by Meaningful Conversation – A Sharp Contrast – Focus on Anxiety – Is My Pastor About to Quit? – Your Online Presence Matters! – June 2020 Letter from the Director – All in – Ministry in the Pandemic Era – Letter from the Director – April 2020		– June 2021 – Mar 2021 – Jan 2021 – Nov 2020 – Nov 2020 – Sep 2020 – July 2020 – June 2020 – May 2020 – May 2020 – Apr 2020
Pastoral Formation	– Where Will Our Future Pastors Come From? and Nexus Fundraising Thermometer – New Year Reflections on Our Future as Church – Pastoral Formation Gains Support – What Kind of Pastor Does the Church Need Today? part 3 of 3 – Attention, Please! – Pastoral Formation Project Needed Now More Than Ever – Praying to the Lord of the Harvest – What Kind of Pastor Does the Church Need Today?, part 2 of 3 – What Kind of Pastor Does the Church Need Today, part 1 of 3		– Mar 2020 – Jan 2020 – Easter 2018 – Lent 2018 – Lent 2018 – Lent 2018 – Epiphany 2018 – Epiphany 2018 – Thanksgiving 2017
Politics	No Political Divisiveness		Aug 2020
Post- modernism	– Postmodernism Gone Viral, Part 3: Responding to My Critics – Postmodernism Gone Viral, Part 2: Sloppy, Tendentious Exegesis – Postmodernism Gone Viral: What is Disingenuous About the ELCA Social Statement		– Sept. 2019 – July 2019 – May 2019
Prayer	– Pray Earnestly to the Lord of the Harvest		– Easter 2018
ReconcilingWorks	– Seminary Professors Give Solid Biblical Support for Traditional Views – https://www.lutherancore.website/2021/07/15/what-does-reconcilingworks-want/ – The Key Question Remains Unanwered – Don’t Be Led Astray – June 2020 Letter from the Director – Why Are You Here? Because You Are here. – ELCA: Answer the Question! – Part 2 – Obsessed with Diversity		– July 2021 – July 2021 – Sep 2020 –July 2020 – June 2020 – Jan 2020 – May 2020 – Nov 2019
Repentance	– Repenting of the Sins of Our Nation: Part I – Accepting the Call		– May 2021
Retirement	– February 2020 Letter from the Director		– Feb 2020
Revisionism	– How the Revisionists Re-Framed the Sexuality Debates – Not Here To Be Boiled		– Sep 2020 – Nov 2019
Seminarians	– Don’t Be Led Astray – Review of Queer Eye, Season 5, Episode 1 – PDF of Confessional Resources		– July 2020 – July 2020 – June 2020
Same Sex Marriage * See also ELCA and LGBTQIA+ Agenda	– How the Revisionists Re-Framed the Sexuality Debates – June 2020 Letter from the Director – Letter to ELCA Leadership Following Same-Sex Marriage Decision		– Sep 2020 – June 2020 – June 2015
St. Paul Lutheran Seminary	– St. Paul Lutheran Seminary Trains Christian Workers		– Thanksgiving 2017
Society of the Holy Trinity (STS) General Retreat	– Not Ashamed or Afraid to Call God Father		– Oct 2019
Time (Past, Present, Future)	Why They May Not Hear You		Mar 2020
Tributes	Tribute to Paull Spring Tribute to Paull Spring: Remembrance		– Nov 2020 – Nov 2020
Unity	– Unity, Truth, and Renewal – This Crisis Calls for Unity in Christ True Unity: Reflections on the Augsburg Confession, Part 3		– July 2020 – July 2020 – Mar 2020
Veterans and LMVFM	– We Never Close		– July 2020
Video Book Reviews	– Video Book Reviews – July 2021 – Video Book Reviews – May 2021 – Video Book Reviews – March 2021 – Video Book Review: Synopsis – Video Book Reviews		– July 2021 – May 2021 – Mar 2021 – Jan 2021 – Nov 2020
Worship Resources	– Increasing (In-Person) Worship Attendance: “One Sunday at a Time” – Navigating the Copyright Minefield When Live Streaming Worship – Send Me Your Best Sermons – Letter from the Director, August 2020 – Prayers for Pentecost Sunday, May 20, 2018		– May 2021 – May 2021 – Mar 2021 – Aug 2020 – Easter 2018, p. 4
Youth Ministry Resources	– Spring Devotional – Pray for Kanye – Our Thursday Night Group: The Lord Can Do This Anywhere – An Appeal to Youth: Take Yourself –And Jesus — Seriously – Where Will Our Future Pastors Come From? – The Christian Faith: Catechism for the Curious – Faith Webbing – We Need a Translator! (Jenkins) – Outcome-Based Youth Ministry – What Happened to Timothy? (Nexus Institute provides summer theology training for high school students)		– May 2021 – Mar 2021 – Mar 2021 – May 2020 – Mar 2020 – Nov 2019 – Nov 2018 – Oct 2018 – Sep 2018 – Easter 2018