Maybe the Methodists and Presbyterians should schedule their next conventions there.

A Lutheran hears the word change and gets really confused for a moment. He then smiles and nods his head, “change you say? , We call that death.” It was meant that young Lutherans we would get very frustrated at some of the older members of the church, who it seemed wouldn’t know change until they died.

Lutherans are very stubborn, it can be one of our best traits, but it can also shoot us in the foot. I’ve heard this kind of vote often in the past. It’s common to read the reports from different synod meetings say that they struck down this very same motion. it is a tactic that seems to be used often.

P.S. I thought my Pastor was going, but he’s taking a vacation, not going to the assembly.

I am glad that my own pastor and the delegate from my congregation are there to weigh in.

This midwestern city may earn a reputation as a site central to the greatest restructuring of American Christianity since the Civil War.

There’s a good chance it will earn a reputation as a site central to the greatest restructuring of Christianity since the Reformation.

With the recent decisions by major American church bodies to honor the committed relationships of gay members, can we have more hope that the legal, civil rights will soon follow? —Richard W. Fitch

We might expect that there will be moderate Christian voices counterbalancing those of the more conservative and fundamentalist Christian voices—if those moderate voices will but speak up and be heard.

If the political discourse surrounding social policy becomes rational and less shrill, there is perhaps a chance that the truth will be heard in the halls of power where access to civil rights is controlled. But if social policy debate continues to be conducted in the echo chamber of Right Wing conservatism and manufactured dissent without a moderating force of reason to dampen the vibrations, nothing will change.