“But take care and watch yourselves closely, so neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children’s children.”  (Deut. 4: 9)

The events of the Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America which began two weeks ago tomorrow in Minneapolis are just now beginning to sink in and become absorbed into the new reality which was created.  In case you’ve been on vacation or otherwise seasonally- detached from the news of late, the voting members of our denomination’s highest legislative body, the ELCA churchwide assembly, voted with an overwhelming majority to reverse the policies prohibiting lesbian and gay persons who are in publically accountable, lifelong, monogomous relationships from serving as rostered leaders in this church.

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