AN ANALYSIS OF RECENT EVENTS IN THE ELCA’S SIERRA PACIFIC SYNOD For years I have been writing articles about the ELCA – often with the subtitle, “What Will It Be…
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I am very grateful for all the people who expressed deep concern over the movement I described in my April letter from the director to “cancel” the Gospel of John…
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Lutheran CORE continues to provide monthly video reviews of books of interest and importance. Many thanks to Maurice Lee, NALC pastor and theologian, for doing a review of Mark Mattes’…
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In the January 2022 issue of CORE Voice and the February 2022 letter from the director I had a two-part article entitled, “How Did It Happen?”, in which I explained…
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One of the goals and purposes of Lutheran CORE is to provide resources for confessing Lutherans. On our website we have daily devotionals as well as suggestions for hymns, Scriptures,…
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Speaking of “oh, what a mess,” here is the latest from Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Awhile back the board of Luther voted to continue to not be RIC. …
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Last September the ELCA celebrated the election and installation of its first transgender bishop, Meghan Rohrer of the Sierra Pacific Synod. ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton served as the lead…
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Speaking of the Gospel of John, there is a movement afoot to “cancel” the passion narrative in John 18-19 and remove it from the readings for Holy Week. The claim…
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FIVE RESPONSES TO AN EMPTY TOMB In Luke’s account of Easter Sunday morning the Gospel writer records four responses to the empty tomb. First, being perplexed. The women found the…
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April 2022 Dear Friends – The apostle Paul wrote to the church in Corinth, “I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received, that…
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