Memorial calling for opening dialog across the church about ministering to same-gender couples passed by the 2013 ELCA Churchwide Assembly
ReconcilingWorks thanks all who worked so hard to bring this memorial resolution before their synod assembly for passage. The memorial, “Conversations about Ministering to Same-Gender Couples and Families,” submitted by Eastern North Dakota, South-Central Synod of Wisconsin, Saint Paul Area, Sierra Pacific, Northwest Washington, Metropolitan Chicago, Minneapolis Area, Metropolitan New York, Northeastern Pennsylvania, Indiana-Kentucky, Southwestern...Continue reading→
HEARTS UNBOUND: Engaging Biblical texts of God’s Radical Love through Reader’s Theater
HEARTS UNBOUND: Engaging Biblical texts of God’s Radical Love through Reader’s Theater by David R. Weiss is a collection of ten inspiring stories of radical love and welcome. Entertaining, thought-provoking, and participatory, each session looks in-depth at the story, the historical context out of which it came, and some of the insights to be gained....Continue reading→
ReconcilingWorks at the 2013 ELCA Churchwide Assembly
ALL Things NEW at the 2013 ELCA Churchwide Assembly
Sermons, resolutions, and memorials make history.
The 2013 ELCA Churchwide Assembly was as awesome, uplifting, and Spirit-filled as these wonderful gatherings of Lutherans are. There were history-making firsts: the election of the fourth presiding bishop, the first female to hold that office, Elizabeth Eaton, bishop of the Northeastern Ohio Synod; Chris Boerger was elected Secretary of the ELCA; the presence and preaching of Guy Erwin, bishop of the Southwest California Synod as of September 21, 2013 and the passage without opposition in debate of three memorials regarding LGBT people.
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