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LUTHERANS REDEDICATE THEMSELVES TO SEEK FULL COMMUNION WITH THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH PHILADELPHIA (ELCA) -- After rejecting a proposal to enter now into "full communion" with The Episcopal Church, the Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has rededicated the church to work toward establishing that relationship in 1999....

PHILADELPHIA (ELCA) -- Lutherans meeting here today agreed it was time to stop fighting with Roman Catholics about a key doctrine which split western Christianity and gave birth to the world's largest Reformation church 480 years ago. Voting members at the Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America...

PHILADELPHIA (ELCA) -- After rejecting a proposal to enter now into "full communion" with The Episcopal Church, the Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has rededicated the church to work toward establishing that relationship in 1999. The assembly overwhelmingly adopted two resolutions on Tuesday, Aug. 19, outlining...

PHILADELPHIA (ELCA) -- Risking occasional negative fallout, Lutherans in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America continue to believe they should speak out on social issues. At the biennial Churchwide Assembly meeting here Aug. 14-20, voting members approved a revised set of guidelines for addressing social concerns. The new approach, which...

PHILADELPHIA (ELCA) A series of recommendations intended to recognize and support the ministry of lay people, or "ministry in daily life," has been adopted overwhelmingly and without debate by the Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, meeting here through Wednesday. "Everything you do, everywhere you are, you...

PHILADELPHIA (ELCA) -- Economic problems in Germany have created conditions ripe for right-wing extremism and challenges for the church, a German Lutheran official told the Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America here Aug 14-20. The Rev. Helmut Edelmann, ecumenical officer of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany,...

LUTHERAN VOTE TO RECONSIDER CONCORDAT FAILS Voting members of the Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America have rejected an attempt to reconsider a vote it took on Aug. 18 that denied entering into full communion with The Episcopal Church. The vote to reconsider needed a simple majority...

LUTHERANS REDEDICATE THEMSELVES TO SEEK FULL COMMUNION WITH THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH PHILADELPHIA (ELCA) -- After rejecting a proposal to enter now into "full communion" with The Episcopal Church, the Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has rededicated the church to work toward establishing that relationship in 1999....

PHILADELPHIA (ELCA) -- The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America today approved a proposal declaring "full communion" with three churches of the Reformed tradition -- the Presbyterian Church (USA), the Reformed Church in America, and the United Church of Christ. Voting members of the ELCA Churchwide Assembly voted 839-193 (81.3 percent...

PHILADELPHIA (ELCA) -- "You can talk about history, but it's a lot different to see it," John Gruber said as the tour bus made its way back to Philadelphia Sunday afternoon. A bit of history had, in fact, been seen that day. Gruber, from Milwaukee, is a voting member of...

PHILADELPHIA (ELCA) -- An ambitious new fund to help students in seminaries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America pay for theological education and guidelines for the continuing education of professional church workers were adopted today by the ELCA's biennial churchwide assembly meeting here through Wednesday. The voting members seemed...

PHILADELPHIA (ELCA) -- Participants at the biennial churchwide assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America marked the church's tenth year with a birthday party on Saturday evening. ELCA vice president Kathy J. Magnus of Denver, Colorado presided over a "Tenth Anniversary Banquet" with birthday cake, sparkling cider, an exhibit...

PHILADELPHIA (ELCA) -- "The church had better be ready to listen to us, because we have something to say!" exclaimed one participant at the Youth and Young Adult Convocation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Sixty Lutheran youth (ages 13-18) and 58 young adults (ages 19-30) responded to...

PHILADELPHIA (ELCA) -- Dr. Addie J. Butler of Philadelphia was elected vice president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America today. Butler was elected on the fifth ballot with 670 votes, or 67.4 percent of the 994 cast. Myrna Sheie, the other finalist for the office, received 324 votes. "Go,...

PHILADELPHIA (ELCA) -- Almost unanimously, more than 900 voting members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America overwhelmingly approved "Seven Initiatives for a New Century" during the Monday afternoon plenary session of the fifth biennial Churchwide Assembly being held here Aug. 14-20. With not a single word of discussion, voting...

PHILADELPHIA (ELCA) -- By a narrow margin the Evanglical Lutheran Church in America has rejected a proposal to enter into "full communion" with The Episcopal Church here Aug. 18. The proposal needed the support of two-thirds of the ELCA Churchwide Assembly for approval. It failed by a vote of 684...

Comments: To: elcasco.elca.org.elcanews@CO.ELCA.ORG BULLETIN - August 19, 1997 - 10:30 a.m. EPISCOPAL-LUTHERAN PROPOSAL FAILS; FULL COMMUNION IS DECALRED WITH PRESBYTERIAN AND REFORMED DENOMINATIONS Philadelphia -- The proposal to declare full communion between the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Episcopal church failed here by six votes. In action taken...

PHILADELPHIA (ELCA) -- Congregational conflict -- down the street today, on the Midwest's Great Plains a hundred years ago or in Corinth two millennium ago -- continues as a constant in the Christian church. The troubled and troublesome Corinthian congregation offers a way to look at what the Apostle Paul...

PHILADELPHIA (ELCA) -- "Unity in Christ has never been uniformity. Divisions in the church have injured us, but diversity has been enriching," the Rev. Michael Rogness, professor of homiletics at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn., told voting members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America as they met in assembly...

PHILADELPHIA (ELCA) -- Two prominent Lutheran theologians squared off Aug. 16 on the subject of relations between Lutheran and Reformed churches. The exchange between the Rev. William H. Lazareth, former bishop of the Metro New York Synod and the Rev. Timothy Lull, president of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley,...