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2008 Presiding Bishop's Message Archive

Messages from ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson

 General Messages

• Presiding Bishop's Statement on Gaza Violence and Bishops' Visit to Middle East (December 31, 2008)
• Tribute to the Reverend Dr. Robert J. Marshall (December 22, 2008)
• Presiding Bishop’s Statement on 2008 Presidential Election (November 5, 2008)
• Pastoral letter to the ELCA on the U.S. Presidential Election (October 16, 2008)
• Statement on Hurricanes (September 12, 2008)
• Joint Statement on Sudan (June 4, 2008) 
• Melting Snow on Mt. Kilimanjaro: A Witness of a Suffering Creation  (June 2008)
• Joint Statement on Resettlement and Migration  (January 30, 2008)
• Statement on Kenya (January 3, 2008) 

Messages to Rostered Leaders

• Presiding Bishop's Statement on Gaza Violence and Bishops' Visit to Middle East (December 31, 2008)
• Lutheran Letter to the Candidates (July 8, 2008)
• Current Domestic Disasters (June 20, 2008)
• Death of Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho (March 19, 2008) 
• An E-mail to Rostered Leaders - Lent 2008 (February 28, 2008) 
• Crisis in Kenya (February 7, 2008) 

Holy Day Messages

• Christmas 2008
• Easter 2008

Monthly Column in The Lutheran

• December 2008: Thriving in a pluralistic world. ELCA is evangelical, missional in its witness 
• November 2008: Communal Repentance, Dying, rising with Christ no heroic individual quest.
• October 2008: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, God's work. Our hands.
• September 2008: Biblical fluency, Book of Faith 'not simply another' Bible study 
• August 2008: Putting faith on the line, Presidential candidates are urged to take action 
• July 2008: Growing together, Listen and learn from one another 
• June 2008: Spiritual vs. religious, Hope found in role of emerging churches 
• May 2008: In creation, find hope, God in, above, outside all things 
• April 2008: Acting our age, God uses people in all stages of life 
• March 2008: God crosses borders, Remember the biblical stories 
• February 2008: Waters of life, Precious gift, human necessity 
• January 2008: The genetics challenge, Our role in stewarding God's gift of life