AN ANALYSIS OF THE STUDY GUIDE FOR THE RECONSIDERATION OF THE HUMAN SEXUALITY SOCIAL STATEMENT by Dennis D. Nelson The task force that is reconsidering the 2009 ELCA social…
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Back in the fall of 2009, shortly after the ELCA national assembly actions created so much controversy, my congregational members were already leaning toward disaffiliation. In fact, my co-pastor and…
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I recently attended a traditional worship service where the emotional and spiritual highlight for me was the opening and closing hymns. This was not because the sermon message was subpar…
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From a Washington Post article on March 29, 2021: “Church membership in the United States has fallen below the majority for the first time in nearly a century … First…
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Editor’s Note: Jody Ellingson is the former call committee chair and transition team member of American Lutheran Church (LCMC), Long Prairie, Minnesota. She wrote this unsolicited recommendation about the ministry…
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