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Prayer, deliberation, time, and more prayer. This was a long time coming.

Stynxno — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:24:16 -0800

Do you know what the Lutherans are doing this week? The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is talking about sex at their bi-annual assembly and they decided that blessings on gay marriage and the rosterering of leaders in same-gender relationships are A OK. The ELCA, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America - currently the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States with over 4 million members - is having it's bi-annual church wide assembly this week( and the whole thing has been webcasted live). On Wednesday, the ELCA assembly accepted it's 10th social statement dealing with Human Sexuality. The fact that a tornado touched down that day, clipping the assembly hall and damaging a nearby Lutheran Church was seen as either God being angry or the Holy Spirit being awesome. On Thursday, the Assembly accepted full communion with the United Methodist Church. On Friday, the Assembly gathered to discuss and vote on the 4 recommendations attached to the Social Statement on Human Sexuality. Respecting the ideas of bound conscience passed with 77% of the vote. Instituting, developing, and allowing congregations in the ELCA to bless, support, and hold publicly accountable same-sex couples passed with 61% of the vote. The rostering of gay pastors in committed same-sex relationships passed with 55.35% of the vote.

Rev. Neuhaus, RIP

parmanparman — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:04:37 -0800

Rev. Richard John Neuhaus is dead. The founder and editor of the Catholic journal First Things, (I am a subscriber), and an inveterate gossip.

The talking dog is blasphemous.

Sticherbeast — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 23:54:05 -0800

Davey and Goliath are back! After a successful pro-tolerance Christmas special, new episodes of the Lutheran stop-motion sensation Davey and Goliath are thundering back into production. Revisit some old times (Quicktime; also, slow) and look to the familiar future of Christian programming for kids!

Sean Meade — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 14:02:24 -0800

Today is Reformation Day, the anniversary of Martin Luther nailing the 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church in 1517. He was largely criticizing the practice of selling indulgences (forgiveness for sins). He didn't intend to split with the church. He left room for the Pope to slip out of the indulgences corruption. But the Pope didn't, and the split eventually came.