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The Evangelical Lutheran Church released a statement Tuesday stating opposition to the Supreme Court's leaked draft opinion that could overturn Roe v. Wade.
2 Timothy 4:3-4 3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
Mainstream denomination Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELCA) recently posted a prayer to “Mother God.” But how does Scripture refer to God?
by Ken Ham | “Mother God, you have fed us with the nourishment of your spiritual food. Raise us up into salvation and rid us of our bitterness, so that we may share the sweetness of your holy word with all the world.”
That was the prayer recently posted to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s (ECLA) Twitter account...
Lutheran Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber says “let them eat cake” as she bids farewell to her congregation of drag queens and suburban baby boomers at House of All Sinners and Saints.
“I invite you to come to church July 8th for my farewell liturgy and what I can only assume will also be an epic dance party with red velvet cake. Actually, I invite you to church every Sunday before I leave – and every Sunday after I leave (once a church planter always a church planter). Seriously. Get your asses to church. :)”
the joy of shoe polish
This is rather sweet. Original Ecla shoe polish poster artwork from Italy in the 1920s(?). Artist is probably Luciano Achille Mauzan.
[Mary] heard outrageous things from an angel and said, "Let it be with me according to you word" (Luke 1:38). Mary trusted the word from the angel, telling her that she was favored. And maybe that trust is what *made* her favored. [...] I may feel used to the idea that if I live a certain kind of life, I can make myself worthy of God. But what if God's Word is so much more powerful than our ability to become worthy of God? I mean, not for nothing, but if God can create the entire universe by speaking it into existence, then I think God can make us into God's beloved by simply saying it is so.
Accidental Saints by Nadia Bolz-Weber
I love this take because it says that everyone is already enough. You don’t have to adhere to some idea of what “Christian” means. You don’t have to be pure or some definition of good.
You’re already enough and maybe the most Christian and audacious thing you can do is believe that.
When I first started attending a Lutheran church in college, I didn’t get grace. Even after reaching a point where I felt I could explain it a bit, I didn’t really see how it was applicable outside of an almost academic understanding of faith.
(I should note that I grew up in Baptist churches; the idea of having to be good and that if I were truly Christian then I’d just want to always do the right thing and since I screwed up then maybe something was wrong with my faith was deeply ingrained).
Then I read the above quote and the essay it part of and it makes sense. It is idea that I don’t have to do anything to be worthy (of God’s love, of existing, of anything) because I already am just as I am. Plain as that.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, which represents nearly 3.5 million Christians, voted Wednesday to become the country's first "sanctuary church body," according to church officials.
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