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• Clear Lake church leaves ELCA over gay pastors

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 625
  Members of Zion Lutheran Church in Clear Lake voted to withdraw from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on Sunday because of the organization’s decision to allow homosexuals in committed relationship to serve as pastors, the Mason City Globe Gazette reports. From the Globe Gazette: The vote was 238 ...
  4 days ago

• St. John Lutheran - A Study in Prejudice

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 444
  I have previously written about St. Johns Lutheran Church in the Roanoke area of Virginia and its move to leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (" ELCA ") because of the national churchs vote back in August to allow partnered gay clergy in monogamous relationships. That was more than St. Johns homophobic ...
  4 days ago

• Church wants off Lutheran splinter group’s list, group says no

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 675
  A Minnesota pastor says his church is incorrectly listed on the website of a conservative splinter group that’s breaking away from the Evangelical Church in America (ELCA) over the church’s recent votes on homosexuality , but that group is refusing to rectify the error. Pastor Arthur Sharot of Urland Lutheran ...
  1 week ago

• You might be interested...

  
  Better Living: Thoughts from Mark Daniels — Authority: 427
  if youre a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) like me, in the online town hall that presiding bishop Mark Hanson has scheduled for December 6 . It will be interesting to hear the questions raised by people from throughout the church body.
  2 weeks ago

• Church increases donations to ELCA over gay clergy decision

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 675
  Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Minneapolis is bucking a trend among Minnesota’s Lutheran congregations — it decided to increase “benevolence” payments to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America because of an August vote to allow the rostering of gay and lesbian pastors in committed relationships. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lutheran denomination splitting after gay pastor vote

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 136
  The nation’s largest Lutheran denomination is splitting following a controversial decision at its August conference to allow noncelibate homosexuals to serve as pastors, reports Baptist Press.It will take months to determine how truly significant the change to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in American (ELCA) is, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Focus on the Family Cheers Latest Sex-Obsessed Church Schism

  
  Truth Wins Out Blog — Authority: 590
  Obsessed with sex and disinterested in the Gospels, a conservative Lutheran faction misnamed the “Lutheran Coalition for Renewal” (CORE) is encouraging schism from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Focus on the Family applauded this split on Nov. 19. The Rev. Mark Chavez, a CORE director, is quoted ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fifteen Minnesota churches leaving ELCA over gay pastor vote

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 675
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gay ordination vs. women’s ordination

  
  Cranach: The Blog of Veith — Authority: 522
  Which is more problematic, ordaining a homosexual man or ordaining a woman? To ordain someone who sins publicly and without repentance would be a scandalous failure of discipline and Biblical fidelity on the part of the church body. And yet, there have been homosexual pastors before. No one has denied that, ...
  4 weeks ago

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

  
  progressive involvement — Authority: 137
  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 weeks ago

• ELCA splits!

  
  Cranach: The Blog of Veith — Authority: 522
  The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, like the Episcopalians, have split over homosexuality. A new church body is now being organized, consisting of congregations that reject the ELCA’s decision to allow non-celibate homosexuals to serve as pastors: Conservative members of America’s largest Lutheran ...
  4 weeks ago

• Lutheran Line Up for Form Awesome New Anti-Gay Church Body

  
  Queerty — Authority: 698
  No, Jesus did not mean it why he said "love thy brother." Thats why the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, after voting in August to not TOTALLY FREAK OUT if churches approved gay clergy, is seeing even more churches looking to split off. The conservative group Lutheran CORE, having already floated a doomsday ...
  4 weeks ago

• Lutherans Line Up to Form Awesome New Anti-Gay Church Body

  
  Queerty — Authority: 698
  s No, Jesus did not mean it when he said "love thy brother." Thats why the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, after voting in August to not TOTALLY FREAK OUT if churches approved gay clergy, is seeing even more churches looking to split off. The conservative group Lutheran CORE, having already floated a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Modern Day Pharisees Continue to Exit the ELCA

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 444
  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 weeks ago

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

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 444
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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