My wife, Nicole, used to attend an ELCA seminary, Lutheran School of Theology Chicago, and she heard some professors say that the devil doesn’t exist. She gladly transferred from LSTC and graduated from a non-Lutheran seminary, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, which is in Bannockburn, IL., and, in Dec., she was ordained by the Lutheran Evangelical Protestant Church (LEPC).
The many ELCA spinoffs are simply turning back the clock about 20 years. They will be in the exact same spot in a decade or so and try to figure out why.