{"id":2406,"date":"2016-07-27T20:40:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T03:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2016-07-27T20:48:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T03:48:42","slug":"lutheran-hall-of-shame-how-lowell-almen-betrayed-the-elca-on-ccm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=2406","title":{"rendered":"Lutheran Hall of Shame: How Lowell Almen betrayed the ELCA on CCM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the ELCA adopts <strong>ordained deacons<\/strong> at it August 2016 Churchwide Assembly, remember how <strong>Lowell\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Almen double-crossed the church<\/strong> in 1999.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/lowell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2407\" src=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/lowell-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"lowell\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2022 August 1999: The ELCA <strong>adopts<\/strong> the Tucson Resolution as <strong>\u201cbinding.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2022 Lowell Almen tells Episcopal officials: The ELCA did <strong>not adopt<\/strong> the Tucson Resolution as a binding\u00a0interpretation!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2022 November 1999: Lowell Almen tells the ELCA Church Council the Tucson Resolution is <strong>not\u00a0<\/strong><strong>binding.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why all this maneuvering? Why were Lutherans misled? Because top ELCA leaders knew all along that\u00a0<strong>the ELCA must adopt the threefold hierarchy<\/strong> of bishop, priest, and deacon to <strong>fully achieve<\/strong> full communion with the Episcopal Church. Read more <a title=\"ELCA Church Council seeks clarity\" href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/2006\/elcaclarity.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a title=\"The Short Life of the Tucson Resolution\" href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/2006\/shortlife.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the ELCA adopts ordained deacons at it August 2016 Churchwide Assembly, remember how Lowell\u00a0Almen double-crossed the church in 1999. \u2022 August 1999: The ELCA adopts the Tucson Resolution as \u201cbinding.\u201d \u2022 Lowell Almen tells Episcopal officials: The ELCA did not adopt the Tucson Resolution as a binding\u00a0interpretation! \u2022 November 1999: Lowell Almen tells the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2419,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions\/2419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}