Collecting My Thoughts

I don't know if Megan Rohrer is a transwoman or a transman, but Rohrer was a bishop in the Sierra Pacific ELCA (Lutheran) Synod. I say W...

I'm throwing out files from 40-50 years ago. I was a Democrat then. I wrote to anyone who would listen/respond from Robert Lazarus to t...

It's shocking to read in the October issue of First Things how ELCA has gone down, down, down since our congregation left to join NALC. ...

I don't know why most main-line churches are anti-Israel, but they are. They need to look at a map and see what surrounds our tiny ally,...

"Bishop Kevin Kanouse, leader of the Northern Texas-Northern Louisiana synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, [disapprove...

I first saw liturgical dance when I was 18 at Manchester College.  It didn't impress me then, and still doesn't.  But at least it wa...

I certainly don’t think of abortion as “healthcare” since someone always dies, but was surprised that the U.S. military was “behind” the ELC...

No legislator or politician in the history of this country has been this adamant about “choice” to kill a baby—even if it is born alive.  ...

Today I was chatting with a Catholic lobbyist about the HHS Mandate. I told him I didn't think he'd see much support for the Bishop...

The recent battle in ELCA was supposed to be about ordained ELCA gay pastors being released from the celibacy vow. The 2009 vote to OK ...

We joined Upper Arlington Lutheran Church on Palm Sunday 1976--35 years ago, and 26 years after my baptism on Palm Sunday 1950. At that time...

Many Lutherans are misled about the end result of the push for equality for all things homosexual. Our congregation, UALC, has recently lef...

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, which claims a membership of 10,400 congregations and 4.6 million baptized members, accepted a t...

A lesbian Lutheran pastor is proud of her role in "ending discrimination" against non-celibate homosexual pastors in her church. ...

If you think you'll find a more accepting congregation when you leave your church because of the gay marriage/gay pastor controversies (...

At the special congregational meeting on Sunday, June 13, the resolution to leave the ELCA was passed with a 91.8% majority, 538 to 48. Th...

Our family members were "visitors" here for five years--we participated in everything. Bible school, junior and senior choirs, Sun...

to the Christians in the United States. Lutherans are in grief and shock--well, maybe not those who think only the local congregation matte...

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has been sparing over its sexuality statement for 20 years (1989 the task force was formed...

Tamar Lewin wrote the article, "Lutherans to decide whether to sanction homosexual unions" which appeared on page A1 and and A13 o...