Lutheran Ecumenical Representatives Meet in Savannah

SAVANNAH, Ga. (ELCA) — Members of the Lutheran Ecumenical Representatives Network (LERN) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) held their annual meeting here May 12-15, during the National Workshop on Christian Unity. A leading topic of the meeting was how agreements the ELCA has reached with other church bodies can be “lived out”
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Posted: May 27, 2003 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=4806
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2004 Pivotal Year for ELCA Ecumenism, Interfaith Relations

CHICAGO (ELCA) — 2004 is a pivotal year for many ecumenical and interfaith endeavors of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). The ELCA’s 2003 Churchwide Assembly received a planning report and committed the church to work in five strategic directions, including to “deepen and extend our global, ecumenical and interfaith relationships for the sake
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Posted: April 7, 2004 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=4808
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Anne Keffer elected as Directing Deaconess in the ELCA

Sister E. Anne Keffer is installed as Directing Deaconess of the ELCA Deaconess Community WARRENVILLE, Ill. (ELCA) — The Ninth Biennial Assembly was a significant moment in the 120-year history of the Deaconess Community of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). After more than a year without a motherhouse or a directing deaconess, the
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Posted: May 21, 2004 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=4811
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ELCA Bishops, Vatican Leader, Reflect On Joint Declaration

Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, visiting the Conference of Bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America CHICAGO (ELCA) — The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification — a significant document for Lutherans and Catholics signed in 1999 in Augsburg, Germany — “should not remain a
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Posted: October 8, 2004 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=4813
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ELCA, LCMS Leaders Discuss Church Dialogues, Key Issues

CHICAGO (ELCA) — Top leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) discussed a wide variety of topics in a meeting here Oct. 14, including the possibility that both could be part of a new round of theological dialogues with the Roman Catholic Church. The subject was discussed
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Posted: October 19, 2004 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=4818
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Lutheran Ecumenical Representatives Honor Seminarian For Essay

CHICAGO (ELCA) — Benjamin J. Dueholm received a $500 grant toward his tuition at the University of Chicago Divinity School for his essay, “Separated by a Common Faith: Dialogue and Proclamation in Light of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification.” The Lutheran Ecumenical Representatives Network (LERN) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
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Posted: April 9, 2005 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=4830
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ELCA Presiding Bishop, LWF President Focuses on Ecumenism

SÃO LEOPOLDO, Brazil (ELCA) — Some people find it confusing that Lutherans are involved in many different “full communion” relationships, the Rev. Mark S. Hanson said in a panel discussion on ecumenism here Oct. 13. “I always say that’s because our confessions call us to seek deeper unity in the church but allow greater flexibility
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Posted: October 21, 2005 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=4831
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Lutheran World Federation Welcomes Common Christian Assembly

CHICAGO (ELCA) — Leaders of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) welcomed an invitation from the World Council of Churches (WCC) to consider entering into plans with other Christian world communions for a common assembly in the next decade. The Rev. Mark S. Hanson, LWF president and presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
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Posted: February 24, 2006 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=4844
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ELCA Delegation Visits Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch In Istanbul

ISTANBUL, Turkey (ELCA) — A 17-member delegation from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) met here March 17 with His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. The Lutherans offered official greetings to the patriarch, suggesting he visit the ELCA churchwide office in Chicago, as he did with his predecessor, Patriarch Demetrios. The greeting was read
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Posted: March 21, 2006 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=4852
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ELCA Delegation Visits Cardinal Kasper, Ecumenical Leadership

VATICAN CITY (ELCA) — Focusing on “spiritual ecumenism,” Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, the Vatican, said the Roman Catholic Church is preparing a booklet on ecumenism with suggestions for how Catholic parishes can express commitment to ecumenism in their local settings. Kasper made the comment in
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Posted: March 28, 2006 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=4855
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