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Leadership flaws in the ELCA
(Too often when “Leadership within the ELCA” is invoked it is “code” for the Churchwide Offices in Chicago. In this post, I’m referring to pastors and lay leaders of con… more →
Pondering Pastor
Leadership flaws in the ELCA
wrote 14 hours ago: (Too often when “Leadership within the ELCA” is invoked it is “code” for the … more →
LC/NA vs. Lutheran CORE
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wrote 1 month ago: The social statement Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust was a big deal, and still is. Both Lutherans Co … more →
ELCA Angst: Scriptural Authority
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wrote 1 month ago: In August, the ELCA Churchwide Assembly voted to allow persons who were in publically-accountable li … more →
Nov. 15: Special ELCA Churchwide Assembly discussion
wrote 1 month ago: All are invited to join Pastor Harman for an informal discussion concerning the decisions made at th … more →
One Month post ELCA Churchwide Assembly
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wrote 3 months ago: It has now been about a month since the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly where the Assembly voted to al … more →
For those open to understanding the ELCA Decisions
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wrote 3 months ago: The decisions by the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly to “bear one another’s burdens, love … more →
True story from ELCA Churchwide Assembly
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wrote 4 months ago: As told to me by someone in attendance at the Churchwide Assembly… On Saturday a worship servi … more →
Hope for Lutherans' discernment
wrote 4 months ago: Last week, the Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), in which I … more →
What Does Faithfulness Mean?
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wrote 4 months ago: Hopefully, this will be my last comment on the whole ELCA thing for a while. The fallout may be jus … more →
Pastoral Letter on Lutherans, Sexuality, and Sin, part IV
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wrote 4 months ago: [Part I here, Part II here, Part III here] What about love? Over and over, it was said that we are … more →
Pastoral Letter on Lutherans, Sexuality, and Sin, part III
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wrote 4 months ago: [Part I here and II here] Many speakers at the CWA emphasized that we are all sinners in need of the … more →
Pastoral Letter on Lutherans, Sexuality, and Sin, part II
wrote 4 months ago: [Part I here] I watched much of the debate at the ELCA Churchwide Assembly (CWA), and I was struck b … more →
Pastoral Letter on Lutherans, Sexuality, and Sin, part I
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wrote 4 months ago: [Read the remarks of LCMS President Gerald Kieschnick] This is a difficult time for all who share th … more →
The Press on the CWA
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wrote 4 months ago: Here’s the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and here’s the Grand Forks Herald. Here’s a … more →
ELCA Churchwide Assembly 2009 - Day 1 Reflection
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wrote 4 months ago: I’m a voting member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Amercia’s (ELCA) 11th Biannual Churchwide … more →
The Death Knell of the ELCA
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wrote 4 months ago: I suggest that this means the effective end of the ELCA. The proposals from the Sexuality Task Forc … more →
Two-thirds or Not Two-thirds?
wrote 4 months ago: The ELCA is currently debating (at 9:19 pm) whether to accept or reject the sexuality proposals base … more →
Whither Hence for the ELCA?
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wrote 4 months ago: That’s the question, and, although I have my suspicions, I don’t think anyone can really … more →
ELCA Churchwide Assembly - Reprise
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wrote 2 years ago: I knew when I posted it that my previous note would not be my last about the ELCA Churchwide Assembl … more →
