Showing posts with label ELCA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ELCA. Show all posts
Monday, October 15, 2012

Keeping the Unwelcome Mat Firmly in Place: Michael Sean Winters and Grant Gallicho Issue Reminders

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So I already can't keep my mouth shut (and, yes, I am reading some recent news stories, despite my best intentions to focus on mo...
Sunday, December 11, 2011

Text of Lutheran Bishop Chilstrom's Letter to Minnesota Catholic Bishops

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Thanks to Terry Weldon at Queering the Church, I'm seeing that the day before I posted about the recent letter of Lutheran bishop...
Friday, December 9, 2011

Lutheran Bishop Invites Catholic Bishops of Minnesota to Be Good Shepherds

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And as news of the suicide of another gay teen following years of school bullying breaks (building here on what I just posted ), an...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Lutherans Modeling Different Attitude towards Gays: Listen, Learn, Include (Can Catholics Learn?)

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Dennis Coday featured the following quote yesterday in his "Quote for the Day" column at National Catholic Reporter .  It's...
Thursday, August 27, 2009

Media Concerns Again: Gene Lyons on Media's Slippery Connection to Truth

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And, finally today, as a gloss on my reflections about the shoddy role the mainstream media played in covering the recent ELCA assembly, I...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

A Former Lutheran on the ELCA Decisions: Eric Reitan's Statement

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As a counterpoint to my postings on the actions taken at the recent ELCA assembly (see especially here , and click labels ELCA and Evangelic...
Sunday, August 23, 2009

Continued Media Bias in Reporting Lutheran Story: "Sexually Active" Gays and "Monogamous" Relationships

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A point I’ve been stressing in my recent postings about the ELCA assembly is the active complicity of many in the media with the attempts o...

The Lutherans Come Through: Why the ELCA Decision Matters

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As many of you know, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America voted on Friday to remove impediments to ministry for gay church members liv...
Friday, August 21, 2009

When Two Thirds Is Too Little: The Mainstream Media and Right-Wing Puppet Masters Report on Lutherans and Gays

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I wrote two days ago about the attempt of groups fighting against gay-welcoming attitudes in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America to ...
Thursday, August 20, 2009

A Mighty Wind: Lutherans Vote for a Welcoming Church in the Midst of a Storm

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I blogged yesterday about the assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America now taking place in Minneapolis. My posting focused o...
Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Lutherans Play Fair: ELCA Rejects Supermajority Maneuver for Vote on Gay Ministers

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Some fascinating developments are taking place these days at the churchwide assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA). ...
Monday, October 20, 2008

Demonization, Distraction, the Rise of Fascism, and the Shameful Silence of Bishops

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Katrina Vanden Heuvel, editor of the Nation , appeared on MSNBC’s “Hardball” Friday to address remarks made by Minnesota Representative Mich...
Monday, October 6, 2008

"Camp Out": Churches and LGBT Youth

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This weekend Steve and I watched “Camp Out,” a 2006 documentary by Kirk Marcolina and Larry Grimaldi. The film tracks the experiences of a ...