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A MONTHLY MESSAGE FROM THE ELCA PRESIDING BISHOPA MONTHLY MESSAGE FROM THE ELCA PRESIDING BISHOP On Wednesday, Aug. 10, the voting members of the 2016 ELCA Churchwide Assembly received the document “Declaration on the Way.” More than 99 percent of...
Active local woman becomes YAGM
Service is not new to Rachel Carle. She used her voice to highlight a youth perspective on the Metro D.C. Synod Council (2010-2012), and now she’s taken an opportunity to grow in faith and work hand-in-hand with brothers and sisters...
8G is more than digits
Sketch the embodiment of the ELCA at the recent ELCA Churchwide Assembly (CWA), and you'll see several members of the Metro D.C. Synod (designated "8G" in the region) in the faithful crowd. Voting Members from our...
Our ELCA when it met in NOLA
by the Rev. Gordon Lathrop and Gail Ramshaw This bird’s eye view of meaningful business and evocative worship during the 2016 ELCA Churchwide Assembly was shared by members of Resurrection Evangelical Lutheran Church in Arlington, Virginia upon their return from...
A proclivity for paradox
A MONTHLY MESSAGE FROM THE ELCA PRESIDING BISHOP A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all (Martin Luther in Freedom of...
What it means to be Lutheran
A MONTHLY MESSAGE FROM THE ELCA PRESIDING BISHOP Lutherans don’t often garner much media attention. In this country we don’t make up a big segment of the population. When groups of Lutherans began arriving on these shores in the 18th...
Standing with brothers and sisters in Orlando
“We are killing ourselves. All are created in God's image. We are LGBTQ. We are Muslims whose faith has been cooped by hate. God have mercy,” tweeted the Rev. Elizabeth Eaton, ELCA presiding bishop, on June 12, 2016 following the...
Straight outta Nazareth
by the Rev. James Phillips In advance of the 2016 Metro D.C. Synod Assembly, "For the Healing of the Nations," this stimulating sermon preached by Pr. Phillips to leaders gathered at the Bishop's Convocation in October 2015 is being shared....
From persecution to witness
A MONTHLY MESSAGE FROM THE ELCA PRESIDING BISHOP For many months now people have been asking for some kind of statement about the persecution of Christians around the world. It seems to be a straight-forward issue. Christians are suffering in...
Taking aging by Storm
Storm, a two-year-old, 60-pound black Labrador, has made herself at home with The Village at Rockville - A National Lutheran Community (TVAR) in Rockville, Md.* Her first week was spent training and learning the ropes with residents and staff since...