Mainline UOJ Means Being in Fellowship with Everybody, Just as WELS and Missouri Are in Fellowship with ELCA. Very Cool But Easy To Deny

Gradye Parsons

"I didn't borrow the stole over the suitcoat look from Gradye. He borrowed it from me, Brett."

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“Since 1997, this church has establishes full-communion relationships with six partner churches,” said the ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson, adding that these relationship are bearing fruit within synods and among congregations.

The ELCA is in full communion agreements with the Moravian Church, the Presbyterian Church USA, Reformed Church in America, the United Church of Christ, The Episcopal Church, and the United Methodist Church.

Hanson introduced the Rev. Gradye Parsons, the Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church USA, who addressed the assembly.

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GJ - ELCA is in fellowship with every group except the NALC and LCMC, comprised of those congregations driven out of ELCA by the Lavender Mafia.

Hanson is the Godfather of Lavender Mafia.

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Historic greeting from the Islamic Society of North America

Posted on August 18th, 2011 by assemblynews 

ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson welcomed Dr. Sayyid M. Sayeed, national director for the Office for Interfaith and Community Alliances of the Islamic Society of North America.

Hanson said this is the first time an ELCA Churchwide Assembly has welcomed and heard from an Islamic leader, representing the largest Islamic organization in the United States.

“Peace be with you,” said Dr. Sayeed. The assembly responded with, “and also with you.”

“It is certainly an historic honor to be with you today,” Sayeed told the assembly. “Today the ELCA has broken [stereotypes] when it established a committee on Lutheran-Muslim relationships, and that committee has [shared] that we love you.” The assembly applauded in response.