God is not your Mother either. But the ELCA wants you to call God: “Mother.” The ELCA’s Book of Faith Lenten Journey is on the Lord’s Prayer. Surprise, surprise – in the ELCA praying to “Our Father” is nice but limiting. What’s needed? Mother God. Parent God. A metaphor from our own experience to reflect […]
CORE – more clergy-centered in the NALC
How does LCMC differ from the NALC (North American Lutheran Church) which CORE is starting? Two of many differences: 1. The NALC will be led by a bishop who alone can install his successor into office. 2. In the NALC the national assembly will include all pastors and bishops as delegates and “approximately an equal number […]
Cross Niagara v. Cross & Resurrection
“Jesus invites each of us to climb on his shoulders so he can carry us from sinfulness to God’s eternal grace. It is by faith that each of us chooses whether to climb on Jesus’ shoulders and let him take us there,” writes an ELCA pastor in The Lutheran (March 2010, p.3). This article is […]
Strommen on same-sex behaviors
“It is not judgmental to identify smoking tobacco as harmful. We agree it is not judgmental but loving to encourage people to stop smoking,” writes Merton Strommen. To see how this applies to same-sex behaviors, read here.
Everything – except what really counts
ELCA Bishop Peter Rogness reports to the ELCA Conference of Bishops that our post, “Lutherans: Hands Off!” — is much-ado-about-nothing. To the contrary, it’s much-ado-about-the-main-thing: The touch which alone gives bishops the special grace to ordain other clergy and make Christ present in the Eucharist. Rogness doesn’t get it. His report shows he’s uninformed about […]