Posted on 10 May 2010
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The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) failed to find mutual ground at a recently held meeting in Chicago regarding ELCA’s stand on ordaining partnered gays.
ELCA’s Rev. Marcus R. Kunz denied they have abandoned scriptural authority in so doing.
Rather, he said “We seek to be faithful to the evangelical purpose that God intends with the Scriptures” according to Christian Today.
LCMS President Dr. Gerald B. Kieschnick called it a difference in understanding of scriptural authority and interpretation. Read more... (435 words, 2 images, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)
Posted on 26 April 2010
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President Barack Obama made a pilgrimage to pray with Billy Graham, the American preacher who harnessed the media and made Christian evangelism a global phenomenon, recently.
Evangelist Billy Graham in 1966. Graham has met with every U.S. president since Harry Truman.
Obama rode in his motorcade to Graham’s mountainside log cabin in Montreat, which is near Asheville, N.C., upon the conclusion of his North Carolina vacation with his wife, Michele, and friends.
It was Obama’s first meeting with the ailing evangelist who has counseled commanders in chief since Dwight Eisenhower. Read more... (482 words, 2 images, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)
