It's About the Teaching
On Wednesday, Lutheran CORE announced -- among several other matters -- that it "will aid in the formation of a Lutheran church body for those congregations and individuals that choose to end their affiliation with the ELCA." (No, I'm not particularly interested in that.)Yesterday, Lutherans Concerned/North America "responded with sadness" to that announcement. Said LC/NA's Emily Eastwood, "It seems with yesterday's announcement that some ELCA Lutherans cannot even tolerate being in the same church family with congregations who accept us. An

Baltic Lutheran Bishops Send Message
MESSAGE FROM THE MEETING OF THE BALTIC LUTHERAN BISHOPS The leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia and Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lithuania met in Tallinn on the 3rd and 4th of November, 2009 to strengthen the long experience of unity of the Lutheran churches in the Baltic countries and to pray for the fellowship among Christians of the whole world, recognizing that in our time the ties among and within Christian communities in many places are put to the test. Bishops also discussed tasks and responsibilities of their churches looking for better ways of co-operation in the future. Christian faith means living with Christ

Conference: The Hammer of God
The International Giertz Society(English Language Section)& the Pittsburgh Pastoral Conference honor…THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE HAMMER OF GODwith two lectures on Bo Giertz’s beloved and influential novel, which appeared in English for the first time in 1960  

For Hallowe'en/Reformation Day
From "BrotherBoris" on ALPB Forum Online: "The Reformed are like vampires. They are horrified by the sign of the cross, literally run away from holy water (I wonder if it burns them?) and suck any good ceremonial

Remembering the Signs
So there I was, driving north-bound on I-35 about a half-hour after crossing the Iowa-Minnesota border, on my way to the ELCA Churchwide Assembly in Minneapolis. It's not the most exciting drive, but I had the lecture series by Br. William Short, ofm,