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Lutherans launch initiative joining Indigenous-led Truth and Healing Movement
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 13, 2023
(RNS) — ‘It’s pretty tremendous that a bishop has commissioned a movement,’ said Vance Blackfox, the ELCA’s director for Indigenous ministries and tribal relations.
With race in mind, Christians reconsider language of dark and light at Advent
By Emily McFarlan Miller — December 7, 2022
(RNS) — ‘The idea that darkness is inherently bad needs no reinforcement,’ said one pastor.
Meet Imran Siddiqui, the first Asian American vice president of the ELCA
By Emily McFarlan Miller — August 19, 2022
(RNS) — Siddiqui, who became Lutheran in 2011, said he doesn’t always get all the ELCA's 'in' jokes about hot dishes and Garrison Keillor. But he hopes he’ll bring a different perspective that will be helpful.
5 things you need to know from the ELCA Churchwide Assembly
By Emily McFarlan Miller — August 12, 2022
COLUMBUS, Ohio (RNS) — The denomination's first meeting since the pandemic saw the election of the first Asian American vice president, as well as support for the #Landback movement and a long-awaited apology.
Cómo una congregación latina en California se encontró en el centro del ajuste de cuentas racial de la ELCA
By Alejandra Molina — August 12, 2022
Los líderes de la denominación, que es 96% blanca, dicen que se esfuerzan por "convertirse en una iglesia multiétnica y multicultural" mientras lidian con las acusaciones de racismo.
Reckoning with their history, Lutherans issue declaration to Indigenous peoples
By Emily McFarlan Miller — August 11, 2022
COLUMBUS, Ohio (RNS) — The largest Lutheran denomination in the United States shared its Declaration of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to American Indian and Alaska Native People for the first time in person Wednesday (Aug. 10) at its triennial Churchwide Assembly in Columbus, Ohio.
ELCA apologizes to Latino congregation whose pastor was removed on sacred day
By Emily McFarlan Miller — August 10, 2022
(RNS) — ‘We hope that this public apology is only the first step of many in our committed journey to dismantle
systemic racism in this church,’ representatives of Iglesia Luterana Santa Maria Peregrina said.
First transgender bishop of largest Lutheran denomination resigns
By Alejandra Molina — June 7, 2022
(RNS) — ‘The constant misinformation, bullying and harassment has taken too hard a toll in the Synod I love, my family and myself,’ said the Rev. Megan Rohrer.
ELCA presiding bishop releases report examining removal of Latino pastor by Bishop Rohrer
By Alejandra Molina — June 2, 2022
(RNS) — The report comes months after the Rev. Megan Rohrer’s actions were criticized by the Asociación de Ministerios Latinos de la ELCA as showing a ‘lack of empathy and understanding toward their Latinx siblings.’
ELCA presiding bishop requests resignation of first transgender bishop
By Emily McFarlan Miller — May 28, 2022
(RNS) — Bishop Megan Rohrer’s removal of a Latino pastor on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe has been criticized by the Asociación de Ministerios Latinos de la ELCA as showing a ‘lack of empathy and understanding toward their Latinx siblings.’
ELCA Lutherans mark 35th anniversary amid calls to expand beyond European roots
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 29, 2022
(RNS) — The denomination, born on April 30, 1987, remains one of the whitest in the country.
As Russian threat escalates, prominent US faith leaders hold vigil for peace in Ukraine
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 23, 2022
(RNS) — More than a dozen faith leaders offered prayers for a peaceful resolution during an online vigil Wednesday.
National Council of Churches elects all-female officers, approves NRSV update
By Adelle M. Banks — October 14, 2021
(RNS) — ‘At this pivotal time in the life of the church in the United States, it is noteworthy that the NCC is modeling inclusiveness in selecting its leaders,’ said its new chair.
Lutheran World Federation elects first female general secretary to lead global communion
By Emily McFarlan Miller — June 21, 2021
(RNS) — In addition to being the first woman, the Rev. Anne Burghardt's election makes her the first pastor from Central and Eastern Europe to lead the LWF.
First ELCA transgender bishop, Megan Rohrer, hopes to ‘translate good news’ for the curious
By Emily McFarlan Miller — May 11, 2021
(RNS) — That’s been the focus of Rohrer’s ministry, first as the executive director of a nonprofit serving the homeless and hungry in San Francisco and now as bishop-elect of the Sierra Pacific Synod of the ELCA.
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