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• Just sayin...

  
  watersblogged! — Authority: 131
  Im fascinated by the smugness of some Roman Catholics in the blogosphere and elsewhere over the ELCAs decision to ordain practicing homosexuals. I mean, its not as if when the ELCA ministerium reaches its highest point of saturation with homosexual pastors the Roman Catholic church wont still lead the Christian ...
  9 hours ago

• Nine Iowa churches leave ELCA over gay pastors

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 659
  Nine Iowa congregations have left the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), the largest Lutheran denomination in the world. The moves come after the ELCA voted this summer to allow gay and lesbian pastors in committed relationships to serve in the clergy. The nine congregations will join a new group of ...
  15 hours ago

• Fifteen Minnesota churches leaving ELCA over gay pastor vote

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 670
  More than a dozen Lutheran congregations in Minnesota have vowed to leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) after a vote in Minneapolis this summer to allow gay and lesbian pastors in committed relationships to serve as clergy . The fifteen churches will join a new denomination called Lutheran CORE ...
  17 hours ago

• A new start for ELCA refugees- or another ELCA waiting to happen?

  
  watersblogged! — Authority: 131
  Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. --George Santayana Theres good news and theres bad news on the ELCA front. The good news is that a group of ELCAns- those who comprise the gr.oup known as Lutheran CORE - has decided to go ahead and do the obvious: leave the apostate ELCA and form a ...
  1 day ago

• God’s people building bridges?

  
  Burning or building bridges in the community? — Authority: 122
  I sure hope so! I am a stranger in a strange land. Having moved to a new state this summer, many things are new, different, displaced, and fresh. I am feeling the inkling to look for a place to worship that is welcoming. I attended a Lutheran church in OR. for several years. It look me quite a while to barely ...
  1 day ago

• The ELCA will take a hit, and keep on ticking

  
  progressive involvement — Authority: 139
  The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has about 10,000 congregations.  The key churchwide assembly vote to roster practicing homosexuals passed 55-45.  With the formation of a competing denomination opposed to those changes, those advocating for schism ought to be able to peel away a sizeable portion ...
  3 days ago

• Anglican/Lutheran schism flowchart

  
  progressive involvement — Authority: 139
  ht: Dan [IMG: http://www.progressiveinvolvement.com/.a/6a00d8341c3e3953ef0120a6bbf8a6970b-800wi]
  3 days ago

• Interesting

  
  Better Living: Thoughts from Mark Daniels — Authority: 426
  Here . I wonder if LutheranCORE will make some effort to mesh with Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ ( LCMC), formed about nine years ago by congregations concerned about what they saw as the dilution of the authority of Scripture following the passage, ten years ago, of Called to Common Mission in the ...
  4 days ago

• Fifty Congregations Have Already Voted To Leave ELCA

  
  Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed — Authority: 146
  ELCA NEWS SERVICE October 29, 2009 Some ELCA Congregations Vote to Leave or Redirect Funds, Find Its Not Easy 09-241-JB    CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Throughout the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), leaders and members have responded in a variety of ways to changes in the churchs ministry ...
  4 days ago

• The One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

  
  progressive involvement — Authority: 139
  Lutheran Core is leading the charge to start a new denomination for those congregations that will leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) because it will no longer discriminate against homosexual persons who want to serve as a pastor in the church. What will the new denomination be named?  Almost all ...
  4 days ago

• Another denomination splits

  
  "the voice of one crying out in suburbia..." — Authority: 518
  A movement has occurred among ELCA churches to split away from the denomination over the issue of homosexuality. This was inevitable and is a sad reminder of the influence of the world on the church, an influence that allowed to run unchecked invariably leads to heresy and schism. Conservative members of Americas ...
  4 days ago

• Modern Day Pharisees Continue to Exit the ELCA

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 149
  It is sad that closed minded homophobes within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (" ELCA ") are so insecure with their own sexuality and biased against those who are not just like themselves that they are leaving the ELCA and now organizing a new Lutheran organization that will embrace their bigotry and ...
  4 days ago

• Trying To Fathom the Newest ELCA Breakoff

  
  Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed — Authority: 146
  2009 Convention: Sodom and Gomorrah are reconciled with ELCA. When the ALC, LCA, and AELC were taking their last steps into merger, to create ELCA in 1987, my family was leaving the LCA. I was never a part of ELCA and made it clear why. I published Out of the Depths of ELCA in Christian News . WELS was ...
  4 days ago

• Lutheran CORE - New Lutheran Synod Forms Because of ELCA Gay Vote:What Would WELS Say?

  
  Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed — Authority: 146
  Wed Nov 18, 3:45 PM ET Ryan Schwarz, left, and Rev. Paull Spring, chairman of Lutheran Coalition of Renewal (CORE), talk with reporters about the creation of a new Lutheran church body for those who wish to leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, at WordAlone Network offices in New ...
  5 days ago

• ELCA Budget Cuts: Many Staff Eliminated

  
  Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed — Authority: 146
  ELCA NEWS SERVICE November 16, 2009 ELCA Churchwide Budget Reduced, Staff Positions Eliminated 09-258-JB CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) acted Nov. 15 to reduce the 2010 churchwide current fund spending authorization by nearly $7.7 million, 10 percent less ...
  6 days ago

• Bigots/Hypocrites at Apostles Lutheran Church Vote to Leave ELCA

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 149
  I have previously written about St. Johns Lutheran Church in Roanoke, Virginia, which is moving towards leaving the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (" ELCA ") over the issue of partnered gay clergy. These folks insist on blindly literally applying a handful of Bible passages construed to condemn modern day ...
  1 week ago

• Darth Wieder

  
  Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed — Authority: 146
  darthjedi (http://darthjedi.wordpress.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Anonymous ELCA Pastor Whistles Past the Graveyard,...": Thank you for removing my entire blog post from your site. I really appreciate ( sic - transitive verbs without objects?). Thank you also for bringing more traffic to my site. I ...
  1 week ago

• Anonymous ELCA Pastor Whistles Past the Graveyard, Literally

  
  Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed — Authority: 146
  ELCA is not descended from my family? Are We Bleeding? October 22, 2009 at 10:17 am · I was on Twitter yesterday (surprise, surprise) and saw a tweet on #ELCA about another church in California that took their first vote to leave the ELCA. The tweet read “When will the church stop bleeding?” I am ...
  1 week ago

• Sounds kinky

  
  progressive involvement — Authority: 139
  The WordAlone network was formed about ten years ago to fight against "Called to Common Mission," the agrreement whereby the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) entered into full communion with the Episcopal Church (USA).  In recent weeks and months, theyve found a new mission, which is protesting the ...
  1 week ago

• How to understand whats happening

  
  Collecting My Thoughts — Authority: 444
  to the Christians in the United States. Lutherans are in grief and shock--well, maybe not those who think only the local congregation matters. But the August "Church Wide Assembly" which approved gay pastors and marriage after 20 years of nibbling around the edges, for some reason, surprised some (not me). Heres one ...
  1 week ago

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