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This coming summer in New Orleans the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America will hold another Youth Gathering. The last time this happened was in 2018 when 31,000 Lutheran teens were told to support transgenderism by an 11 year-old-boy who thinks he is a girl. Also, ELCA pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber led the teens in a kind of mock baptismal vow, saying “I renounce the lie that queerness is anything other than beauty.” For 2024, the Teen Gathering theme will be “Created to Be”. “We are created to be free—to work for justice for all our siblings”. You will notice the ELCA...

EDINA, Minnesota (LifeSiteNews) — A Lutheran female “minister” has gone viral for reciting a heretical “Sparkle Creed” as part of a recent church service. The Edina Community Lutheran Church (ECLC) “minister,” Anna Helgen, led the congregation in the “creed”: I believe in the non-binary God whose pronouns are plural. I believe in Jesus Christ, their child who wore a fabulous tunic and had two dads and saw everyone as a sibling-child of God. I believe in the rainbow spirit who shatters our image of one white light and refracts it into a rainbow of gorgeous diversity. I believe in the...

A Lutheran church in Minnesota recited a “sparkle creed” about the “nonbinary God” and Jesus’ “two dads” during its Sunday service, according to a live stream recording on YouTube. Edina Community Lutheran Church Pastor Anna Helgen asked the congregation to stand in “body or spirit” to “confess our faith” in the “sparkle creed,” according to the recording. The church went on to chant a statement of faith in the “nonbinary God” and in Jesus Christ, “who had two dads.” (RELATED: Churches Embrace Pride Month With Drag Queen Story Hour, Queer Proms And Gay Concerts) “I believe in the nonbinary God,...

The first openly transgender Lutheran bishop from San Francisco is suing the church alleging harassment, defamation and whistleblowing retaliation. Megan Rohrer said he was defamed, misgendered and forced out of the Sierra Pacific Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The 2022 Blood Pressure Monitor Accuracy Test – DocReviews Doc Reviews "It’s been really baffling to me the level of explicit transphobia I’ve experienced in my journey as bishop," he said. "It’s painful."

(RNS) — The Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber was installed this weekend as the first pastor of public witness for the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States. Bolz-Weber, who has often attracted controversy, is perhaps best known for her New York Times bestselling books, including “Shameless: A Sexual Reformation” and “Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint,” the prayer- and profanity-filled memoir of her journey from alcoholic stand-up comic to Lutheran pastor. She was called to the role of pastor of public witness by the Rocky Mountain Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, whose bishop, Jim...

ELCA Recommendation on Ministry Policies Background: The Report and Recommendation on Ministry Policies was requested by the 2007 Churchwide Assembly, which asked that the Task Force for the ELCA Studies on Sexuality "address and make recommendations on changes to any polices that preclude practicing homosexual persons from the rosters of this church" [CA07.06.27]. The document was released by the task force in February 2009 along with the proposed social statement, "Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust," which was requested by the 2001 Churchwide Assembly. This document is available on www.elca.org. Church Council Action, March 29, 2009: To transmit the following actions...

The road to recovery was mapped out at Concordia University yesterday, but directional signs won't be installed for a while. Frederick Lowy, the university's rector, said that Concordia would "rapidly establish clear guidelines" on what constitutes acceptable political activity on campus. How rapidly? The Concordia administrators can't say - but it will be soon. Lowy's commitment to happier days came as Concordia made public a report on events that roiled the university's downtown campus Sept. 9, when a violent demonstration disrupted and ultimately forced the cancellation of a speech by former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The report, available online...