Editor's note: The Social Statement as amended was approved by the 2025 ELCA Churchwide Assembly 762 to 16. Rather than repeat Pastor Nelson’s comprehensive review of the 2025 ELCA Churchwide…
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IT WAS BAD, BUT IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE: REVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF THE 2025 ELCA CHURCHWIDE ASSEMBLY
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Last month there was a discussion in the ELCA Clergy Facebook group where one person mentioned concerns that had been shared by a member of the congregation regarding last summer’s…
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As a friendly commenter noted, my last article needed some serious editing. It is never good for me to find myself writing too close to a deadline; the result is…
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Although the appellation “woke”—used by Ricky Gervais to the Hollywood establishment at the Oscars as “insider” language just a few years ago—is eschewed by progressives now that cultural conservatives have…
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“What’s all this ‘Father’ stuff about in the Lord’s Prayer? Why should we call God ‘Father,’ anyway?” she intoned petulantly, fixing me with a stare that clearly thought no reasonable…
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In my office hangs my ordination certificate. Across it is emblazoned the name of the ordaining body, the body whose confessional commitments I pledged to uphold on the day I…
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