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An outside organization runs ELCA now, just the way
Church and Change runs WELS.

 Criticism of the synod works, as long as the critics win,
as they have in ELCA, WELS, LCMS, and the Little Sect on the Prairie. Here are the 65 synods of ELCA.

Bishop Lull looks like PB Liz Eaton. See below.

Presiding Bishop Liz Eaton, ELCA, mourned the 2016 election.

Cathedral event Jan. 21 marks close of local Reformation commemoration - TheCatholicSpirit.com : TheCatholicSpirit.com:



"Cathedral event Jan. 21 marks close of local Reformation commemoration
Maria Wiering | January 4, 2018 |



On Jan. 21, Archbishop Bernard Hebda will join with two local Lutheran bishops to mark the close of an ecumenical year of prayer marking the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, which began with the publication of Martin Luther’s “95 Theses” in 1517. Ahead of the event, The Catholic Spirit asked Father Erich Rutten, pastor of St. Peter Claver in St. Paul and chairman of the Archdiocesan Commission for Ecumenism and Interreligious Affairs, about what the commemoration has meant for the relationship between the Catholic and Lutheran churches.

Q. What do you think has come from the joint Catholic and Lutheran commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, both internationally and locally?

A. Both Catholics and Lutherans have intentionally used the word “commemoration” for this event. It has been an opportunity for what Pope John Paul II called a “healing of memories.” In other words, both sides have tried to look more objectively at what happened during the Reformation, acknowledge faults on both sides, ask forgiveness, and look for ways to move forward in greater unity. Locally, this has offered opportunities for our communities to come together in each others’ home churches. Archbishop Hebda preached at Central Lutheran and ELCA Bishop Patricia Lull will preach at our Cathedral. These things would have been unimaginable 50 years ago. This anniversary year has been an opportunity to get to know each other better and begin to call each other friends."

 PB Mark Hanson hatched the egg in 2009,
and Liz Eaton took over his job.
This is Central Lutheran, where the tornado struck
just after the vote.

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Life Reminiscences of an Old Lutheran Minister by John Gottlieb Morris (1803-1895) - Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry

Life Reminiscences of an Old Lutheran Minister by John Gottlieb Morris (1803-1895) - Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry:



"On election
Some contemporaries of mine at Princeton became distinguished men, and some who were modest, pious and exemplary young men did not keep the faith when they entered upon public life. When I came to Baltimore I found one who had been one of the “Religiosi,” as they were called at college, practicing at the bar, besides holding a high position in the court, but he had abandoned his religious profession, as well as his moral life. I could say the same of others, but it gives me more pleasure to say that most of that class of men maintained their integrity to the end, as far as my observation extended. One of these young lawyers at the Baltimore bar, who had graduated with high honors at Princeton before I went there, was a student distinguished for his piety and Christian earnestness. He became skeptical, it was said, from reading philosophical writings, and lapsed into infidelity. He may have been a student of theology, but of this I am not certain. It is said Dr. [Archibald] Alexander [founder of Princeton, 1812] would never give him up, but believing him an elect child of God he would be brought back by divine grace; in other words, he could not finally fall away because he was predestinated to eternal life! He did not return, whence it follows either that he was not predestinated, or if he was, that the elect may “fall from grace.” – From Chapter 2"



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