Editor's Note: The author is writing about the outlandishness of the 1994 draft. It promoted same sex relationships and masturbation. And it was released to the press before it was…
The events that put me at the front line of leading our church out of the ELCA began with an unexpected phone call from our founding pastor. Unbeknownst to him,…
Six years. That was the length of time St. John’s Lutheran Church of Nanticoke, PA, went without a called pastor. For six years, this incredibly close-knit group of strong lay…
It started with Holy Communion. When people ask me to share my experience with leaving the ELCA, the story begins where questions of church fellowship must always begin: the altar.…
Editor's Note: Dan Hetherington is the pastor at St. John Lutheran Church, Columbia, MD. We have heard many stories from around the country about the problems some have faced in…
Editor’s Note: Lutheran CORE is collecting and possibly publishing stories from our readers and congregations about the process they followed when they tried to exit the ELCA — successfully or…
Editor's Note: Our prayers and words of thanks go to the Reformers group of St. Paul's Lutheran Church. They have been tireless in their efforts and courageous and faithful in…
“We must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have…
The following is an excerpt from the October Letter from the DIrector of Lutheran Core, Dennis Nelson. In my Summer Letter from the Director I gave a very detailed account…
WILL YOUR CHURCH BE NEXT? There are three things that I would like to say as follow up to my last two articles about two ELCA congregations where their respective…
In my Summer Letter from the Director I told in great detail the disturbing story of how Bishop Yehiel Curry of the ELCA’s Metropolitan Chicago Synod threatened, intimidated, bullied, and…
WE ARE ALL VULNERABLE There have been many occasions when someone who is a member of a congregation that is still in the ELCA has shared with me, “I have…
