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• Thrivent Uses Your Money To Send Candidates to ELCA Seminary

  
  Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed — Authority: 148
  Janesville Janesville couple Aware of the call By CATHERINE IDZERDA ( ...
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• Beauty and Value of the Wedge Issue

  
  Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed — Authority: 148
  Someone congratulated me for dealing with ELCA instead of the Chicaneries in WELS. They belong to the same tribe. ELCA is just a few months ahead of the Church and Change agenda. Those who get on the Pietism-Enthusiasm-CGM bandwagon are most likely to stop at Atheist Alley for a long stay. ELCA was born in Pietism, ...
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• Strange New Tolerance in ELCA

  
  Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed — Authority: 148
  I will try to explain this situation for those blessed by non-membership in ELCA. ELCA met in August and took the final step toward anything-goes ordination and partnering in the parsonage. But that was done under the local option motto. Supposedly the ELCA bishop of the area could decide whether or not to ordain ...
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• Rich Rev - Poor Rev

  
  Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed — Authority: 148
  Rev. Dr. Stan Olson is on the right, installing a deaconess. The Rich Dad Poor Dad series is based on a myth. The authors "poor" father was superintendent of the Hawaiian school system, and his "rich" father never existed. Nevertheless, I decided to kelm the concept for this post. Stan Olson and I were in the ...
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• Faithful Service - New Blog Listing

  
  Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed — Authority: 148
  This is an actual photo of John Travolta kissing a shocked Kirk Douglas on the mouth. The idea was simply to give an award to the distinguished older actor. I added Faithful Service to the blog list because it gathers plenty of information about ELCA. Lutheran News is another one, but its linkage does not ...
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• Alternatives to ELCA

  
  Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed — Authority: 148
  ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson dons his bright episcopal apparel. Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la. I didnt say it. ELCA elites on wrong road By: Les Ristinen, Frazee, Minn. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America elites have apparently determined that social and lifestyle policies that contradict Scripture ...
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• More ELCA Cuts

  
  Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed — Authority: 148
  "Nodding our heads like yeah, shaking our hips like yeah." Cutting our staff like yeah. The Lutheran 12/7/2009 Southeastern Synod may cut grants, staff In many ELCA synods, the new year will bring new concerns for funding of vital ministries. Take the Southeastern Synod, where Bishop H. Julian Gordy committed ...
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• ELCA Bishop - We Need To Recruit More Members

  
  Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed — Authority: 148
  ELCA Bishop Eaton Bishops Article : Northeastern Ohio Synod Northeast Ohio Synod, ELCA ^ | 15 December AD 2009 | Bishop Elizabeth Eaton Posted on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 8:56:36 PM by lightman From NE Ohio December newsletter - Bishops Article: On December third we held a special meeting of the synod ...
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• Another ELCA Church Leaving

  
  Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed — Authority: 148
  Church nears ELCA exodus Inforum ^ | J. Shane Mercer | December 17 2009 Posted on Thursday, December 17, 2009 5:51:32 AM by rhema Congregants at American Lutheran Church in Long Prairie, Minn., have voted in favor of a resolution to leave the nation’s largest Lutheran denomination. The congregation voted 129-11 ...
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• Write Ichabod? - Someone Has Done That Already

  
  Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed — Authority: 148
  Free Republic   To: SmithL; lightman Since 1995 the congregation has held a "Feast of Expulsion" in late December, commemorating the date when the congregation was expelled from the ELCA, according to a news release from the congregation. In its were-flaunting-our-apostasy spirit, the ELCA should initiate a ...
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• Worshington Times - On ELCA Dissidents

  
  Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed — Authority: 148
  Rev. Paull Spring, chairman of Lutheran Coalition of Renewal (CORE), talks 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 Brighton, Minn., on Wednesday. Dissident Lutherans: Bullying over gays ...
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• No More Nice Guy - In ELCA

  
  Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed — Authority: 148
  Saturday, December 26, 2009 Fuller DMins, left click on the link. Whats going on... I had imposed a gag order of sorts on myself to not delve into the crisis in the ELCA until after the Christmas season. However, recent events make that self-imposed guideline not in the best interest of the church. A published ...
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• More comment around the ELCA

  
  progressive involvement — Authority: 137
  Nachfolge wonders what the big deal is, and why this Issue seems so important to some. Cyber Spirit Cafe comments on difficulties in the LCMS, and comments on Bishop Hansons town hall meeting. Pretty Good Lutherans  discusses the voting at one particular congregation, as does Spice Writer Post . Obie ...
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• Lutheran Human Warmth and Care Fund

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 148
  As I have mentioned before, I sublet a portion of my office space to the ELCA Lutheran Bishop of Virginia for the bishops eastern office. The office staff includes the director of the The Lutheran Council of Tidewater (The LCT ) which operates the Human Warmth and Care Fund in Southeastern Virginia . All ...
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• ELCA Imploding Over Homosexuality

  
  Great Adventure Ministries, Inc. — Authority: 125
  ELCA Imploding Over Homosexuality Published December 21, 2009 by Ken Silva Apprising Ministries Apprising Ministries has been covering the growing gay agenda within the church visible for the past year. It’s simply beyond question that it is causing major problems in the dying mainline denominations who ...
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• ELCA Puts a Happy Face on the Fallen Cross Story

  
  Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed — Authority: 148
   The Real Story ELCA NEWS SERVICE December 17, 2009 Minneapolis ELCA Congregation Raises Spire Cross    MINNEAPOLIS (ELCA) -- A chapter in the life of Central Lutheran Church, Minneapolis -- lived out largely in the public eye and one that has provided the opportunity to tell the story of Centrals urban ...
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• "Lets Agree to Disagree...Not This Time!"

  
  Better Living: Thoughts from Mark Daniels — Authority: 132
  [Thats the title of this piece, written by Pastor Jaynan Clark, president of the WordAlone Network, one of several groups committed to the renewal of Lutheranism in North America. What she writes is worthy of prayerful consideration. The article first appeared on the WordAlone web site this past Monday .] It ...
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• Denominations as Hot-Air Balloons

  
  Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed — Authority: 148
  "Up, up and away My beautiful, my beautiful balloon The worlds a nicer place in my beautiful balloon It wears a nicer face in my beautiful balloon We can sing a song and sail along the silver sky For we can fly we can fly." I was reading the American Lutheran Publicity Bureau discussion site today. I was genuinely ...
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• ELCA Needs To Talk, Or Listen?

  
  Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed — Authority: 148
  Wednesday, December 16, 2009 We need to talk In his recent online “town hall meeting ,” ELCA Bishop Hanson repeated a plea he has been making since the churchwide assembly last August (CWA09). He has been asking those upset with the decision to liberalize the church’s stance on homosexuality and ...
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• ELCA Dissenters Waking Up To Reality

  
  Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed — Authority: 148
  Come home to Rome - Purgatory awaits. This is creepy. A regular email friend sent me this link, which involves an LCA church I used to pass when I walked to high school in Moline: http://www.faithelcainfo.blogspot.com/ The website also mentions Trinity, which is the sister church of Salem, where I ...
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