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Over 500 churches have left the ELCA over the last two years. With this in mind, Exposing the ELCA invited some congregations who have left the denomination to share their story, their experience, their journey. Here is the first, of what we hope to be many, stories posted: St. Paul Lutheran Church’s “Journey into the Light.” Read here. St. Paul Lutheran Church is in Oregon, IllinoisContact me if you are interested in telling us your congregation’s story.

(AgapePress) - A recent bomb threat targeted an Ohio church school because of its strong opposition to homosexuality. Last week, St. Paul Lutheran Church and School in Westlake received a call from an individual who ordered its pastor to go on local television and change his position on homosexual marriage. The caller said if his demands were not met in one hour, the church and school would be blown up. After all 280 students in the school were evacuated, Westlake police searched for a bomb but came up empty. St. Paul principal Jim Krupski says the caller disagreed with the...

recent bomb threat targeted an Ohio church school because of its strong opposition to homosexuality. Last week, St. Paul Lutheran Church and School in Westlake received a call from an individual who ordered its pastor to go on local television and change his position on homosexual marriage. The caller said if his demands were not met in one hour, the church and school would be blown up. After all 280 students in the school were evacuated, Westlake police searched for a bomb but came up empty. St. Paul principal Jim Krupski says the caller disagreed with the Lutheran Missouri Synod's...