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  • CLOTHED AND FORGIVEN: LUTHERAN CORE’S RESPONSE TO “WE ARE NAKED AND UNASHAMED”

    06/14/2017 6:33:59 AM PDT · by lightman · 15 replies
    Lutheran CORE ^ | 1 May AD 2017 | Dennis D. Nelson
    In 2009 the ELCA Churchwide Assembly rejected as normative the traditional, Biblical definition of marriage by allowing for the endorsement and ordination of persons in “publicly accountable, lifelong, monogamous, same gender relationships.” Now this spirit of revision has crafted a new movement that hopes to reject any definition of marriage as normative for sexual relationships. Known as “Naked and Unashamed,” this movement was started by seminarians at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, and since then it has reached out to other pastors, leaders, and seminary students in the ELCA who share its beliefs and values. Its revisionist agenda...