First the Episcopalians, and now the Lutherans. . .
The split over gay clergy within the country’s largest Lutheran denomination has prompted a conservative faction to begin forming a new Lutheran church body separate from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Leaders of Lutheran CORE said Wednesday that a working group would immediately begin drafting a constitution and taking other steps to form the denomination, with hopes to have it off the ground by next August.
“There are many people within the ELCA who are very unhappy with what has happened,” said the Rev. Paull Spring, chairman of Lutheran CORE and a retired ELCA bishop from State College, Pa.
November 19th, 2009 | 11:23 am
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November 25th, 2009 | 3:59 pm
Isn’t there already one of those? Has something happened to the Missouri Synod?
November 27th, 2009 | 12:07 pm
Questions about this Lutheran Core group:
1. Just how big is it? Is this a true split, or a splinter?
2. Why don’t they just join an existing Lutheran denomination like Missouri Synod or Wisconsin Synod, instead of forming the 1001st protestant denomination?
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