ELCA News Service June 25, 2015 ELCA presiding bishop to attend funeral in Charleston, S.C. 15-38-MRC CHICAGO (ELCA) – The Rev. Elizabeth A. Eaton, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), will attend the June 26 funeral of the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, who was among the […]
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I urge all of us to spend a day in repentance and mourning. And then we need to get to work. Each of us and all of us need to examine ourselves, our church and our communities. We need to be honest about the reality of racism within us and […]
Presiding Bishop Eaton’s Statement on Racism and the Church
ELCA reaches milestone in welcoming new congregations 5/28/2015 3:00:00 PM CHICAGO (ELCA) – For the Rev. Ruben Duran, the message is quite clear – “Christ’s church is not dying.” That’s a different message, he says, than what has been widely reported in recent years about the decline in membership among […]