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The ELCA's Embrace of Lenny Duncan

10/1/2020

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Lenny Duncan is a highly controversial pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.  It should surprise no one that he and his radical message have been embrace by the denomination's leadership and pastors, who are paid by conservative, Bible-believing membership. 

A recent article talks about Rev. Duncan and his former church, Jehu's Table, saying, "At Jehu’s Table church in Brooklyn, New York, Duncan proclaims his gratitude during Communion for African American role models ranging from transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson to Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X to civil rights minister Martin Luther King Jr." (See here) 


​Below you can read what Pastor Duncan is about and what he is saying.  You will also see that the ELCA has embraced Rev. Lenny Duncan all the way up to the highest of ELCA leaders.  

-  The official ELCA magazine published an article written by Rev. Duncan where he says,

​"I believe that the call of the church in the 21st century is to dismantle white supremacy; that the way of the cross for the entire church is to lay down our lives, resources, buildings and endowments to this cause. That our entire future as a church and as a credible, viable Lutheran witness in the 21st century and beyond is balanced on this alone."

And,

"Our church is the place to have hard and loving conversations that call us to repentance and reparations..." (See Living Lutheran article here)
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Rev. Duncan then says implementing his vision for the ELCA will bring about 
church vitality, that sanctuaries will swell.
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-  “You can't have reconciliation without repentance. Until the ELCA recognizes the way that it's treated persons of color, specifically black folks, and until they realize their style of church is inherently racist and repent from that, until they talk about reparations to the children of pastors who were never paid full salaries, then I don't think there can be reconciliation.” -  Lenny Duncan (See here)

-  As a form of reparations, Rev. Duncan also advocates for,  "..all straight white males in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to remove their names from ballots for bishop." (See here)
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The ELCA is so white because we worship whiteness. --Lenny Duncan

— Greg Smith (@sowhatfaith) July 7, 2019
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-  Fortress Press, Rev. Lenny Duncan's publisher, describes Rev. Duncan's book saying, "It is time for the church to rise up, dust itself off, and take on forces of this world that act against God: whiteness, misogyny, nationalism, homophobia, and economic injustice. Duncan gives a blueprint for the way forward and urges us to follow in the revolutionary path of Jesus." (See here)

Dear Houston-today at Kindred in Montrose we are talking #DearChurch and I get to do Q and A with the amazing @rozellahw the author of #LoveBig and Bishop Mike of the @GulfCoastSynod. We are going to talk dismantling white supremacy in the @ELCA. See y’all at 7.

— Lenny Duncan (@lennyaduncan) July 16, 2019

Church, we need to be calling for the abolition of prisons. This is a system created solely to oppress black and brown bodies, built on a false gospel of law and capitalism. --Lenny Duncan

— Greg Smith (@sowhatfaith) July 8, 2019

The message of Jesus is radical and political. --Lenny Duncan

— Greg Smith (@sowhatfaith) July 4, 2019
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At the Chicago book launch of Dear Church by Rev.Lenny Duncan. Blessed to be able to listen to one of our prophetic voices! Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US get your copy here! https://t.co/DIEInfnXbQ#racialjustice #church pic.twitter.com/2R2kSaL3Qc

— JenDeLeon@WELCA (@JenDeLeonWELCA1) July 9, 2019

Dear Church is here! Subversively sweeping its way through the church and talking about the call of the church in the 21st century- To Dismantle White Supremacy. You can grab a copy here from @amazon @BNBuzz or @indiebound. https://t.co/AarGTvdZLR

— Lenny Duncan (@lennyaduncan) July 3, 2019

Dear Church: "O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God to these bones" (Ezekiel 7:4-5): We must dismantle, destroy, and bury white supremacy. In this nation. In our pews. In our liturgues. --Lenny Duncan

— Greg Smith (@sowhatfaith) July 6, 2019

Great interview by @AMBankstw! I was hearing a lot of people talking about @lennyaduncan's book "Dear Church" earlier this month at the ELCA Churchwide Assembly. https://t.co/bjJk0hYyLb

— Emily McFarlan Miller (@emmillerwrites) August 29, 2019

It’s @tvrasche birthday y’all. pic.twitter.com/iGo1wcw715

— Lenny Duncan (@lennyaduncan) July 9, 2019

Had a great time talking to these folks and excited for this piece :) https://t.co/4BeLqjLYUD

— Lenny Duncan (@lennyaduncan) July 9, 2019
(See above article ​http://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2019/07/queer-lutheran-preacher-calls-on-church-to-end-white-supremacy/

Off to the ordination of @SarGarr with @crazypastor. Hello Baltimore! pic.twitter.com/8l5P7kXFhL

— Lenny Duncan (@lennyaduncan) July 5, 2019

Shout out to @RansomWriters for the appropriate wear for the day pic.twitter.com/9Rwf8ZrcuA

— Lenny Duncan (@lennyaduncan) July 4, 2019

​-  At this time Lenny Duncan was the pastor at Jehu's Table:

In the name of Holy God we rebuke the forces of satan called @ICEgov and all the princes and principalities that have ordered these armed forces to raid our neighborhoods. I was just following orders won’t be an acceptable answer when the Kin-dom of God breaks into this world.

— Jehu’s Table (@JehusTable) June 22, 2019

Struggling to understand #reparations? Chapter 3 of Dear Church makes it viscerally real. @lennyduncan shares his own story and gets to the gut of it. "It means making eight-year-old little boys feel safe." 8 year old African descent boys. #DearChurch #ELCA pic.twitter.com/A4mQQrquDI

— Amanda Zentz-Alo (@prazentz) July 4, 2019

Holy shit y’all. #DearChurch broke the top 1k out of 8 million today on @amazon. Y’all like I can even comprehend those numbers □. pic.twitter.com/CInCAAhPcu

— Lenny Duncan (@lennyaduncan) July 3, 2019

”Just don’t be surprised if the Holy Spirit is a black woman.” □□ □@lennyaduncan #DearChurch pic.twitter.com/dPxn7BUvDm

— Ms KimParis (@MsKimParis) July 6, 2019
-  From ELCA Bishop Patricia Davenport, of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod.

​-  Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton appeared in a film made by Lenny Duncan.
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(See here)

Seminarian @LennyDuncan asks, “Do black churches matter in the #ELCA?” https://t.co/WwWQNCNrKy

— ELCA Lutherans (@ELCA) August 3, 2017

Have you seen the Dear Church excerpt in the current issue of @LivingLutheran yet? Hurry and read it and then grab a copy of Dear Church by @lennyaduncan which is available now! pic.twitter.com/0fb18YgQX1

— Fortress Press (@Fortresspress) July 9, 2019
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​-  Kristen Kuempel, ELCA bishop of the Eastern Washington-Idaho Synod is promoting Rev. Lenny Duncan and says about his book "I know several of our church leaders are reading" it. 

Activist, author & @elca pastor @lennyaduncan will speak at 7 p.m. Monday in Lyceum, book signing to follow. He will also speak in Chapel at 10:15. His new □: “Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the U.S.” https://t.co/9Q87ZUIIVR pic.twitter.com/rakZ9lmNrk

— Wartburg College (@WartburgCollege) November 17, 2019

#DearChurch with @lennyaduncan tonight @Augustana_IL @elca pic.twitter.com/hJmZnkbu4m

— Caryn Riswold (@feminismxianity) July 31, 2019

#DearChurch book club for Christ on Capitol Hill, ELCA. During session #2, we'll figure out how to share @lennyaduncan's insights with the whole congregation in a series of educational events. pic.twitter.com/QfxTtuTCAK

— Lee Ann Pomrenke (@LeeAnnMPomrenke) October 26, 2019

-  Rev. Duncan now has a new job as the Mission Developer Pastor an ELCA church, Messiah Lutheran Church and Preschool in Vancouver, Washington.

Currently, Rev. Duncan is writing blogs calling for the ELCA to pay reparations. (See the first of four, so far, here)  Pastor Duncan is throwing ELCA higher ups under the bus and making things difficult for the ELCA with his anger, race baiting and demands. This should be no surprise to those who know history. 

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Heretical Pastor Rising in ELCA Leadership

5/5/2020

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ELCA pastor Lura N. Groen has been highlighted on Exposing the ELCA many times. She is one of the most radical and heretical ELCA pastors I have come across. (See here and below for a number of things she has been saying. Some of it is blasphemous and vile.)

With that said, Pastor Lura N. Groen has been endorsed and placed into postions of influence and leadership by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. 


  • Last year, Rev. Groen was "elected to the Discipline Committee" at the 2019 Delaware-Maryland Synod (See page 2 here). 
 
  • Delaware-Maryland Synod (ELCA) Bishop Bill Gohl is very familiar with Rev. Groen saying, "Pastor Lura Groen, with whom I belong to a weekly pericope Bible study group and who I know to be a (hard) truth-teller..." (See here).
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  • Rev. Groen was a guest speaker, teaching a class at an ELCA seminary.
 
  • She was even on a panel discussion with the ELCA's Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton as you can see in the picture above.

Below are some writings and social media content from Rev. Groen. Sorry for the shocking and odious content.  How can the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America leadership allow someone, who speaks and believes as this pastor does, to rise in their leadership ranks?  How can they allow Rev. Groen and many ELCA pastors like her, to mock the One True God? 


The ELCA is culpable and responsible for this.  They allow it and give it a platform in their midst. 

The true God of Scripture is not the God the ELCA serves. The Holy Spirit does not dwell in it.

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Continuing from Rev. Lura N. Groen's article posted above "I Hope You Have Only Good Sex" (see the complete article here), she writes, "This is, for me, an open expression of a deeply faith based sexual ethic. My Christian way of saying the same thing is to hope that each of you has sex in way, and only in a way, that is set free to love God, self, and neighbor. And that every time you have sex you respect the image of God in yourself and in your partner(s). That you treat yourself and every other body involved as holy, a temple, beloved by God, created beautifully, fearsomely and awesomely made."

Some of Rev. Groen's comments get even worse:

Jesus was Queer, anti-establishment, pro-heaux, and rejected heteronormative relationship models. https://t.co/L3er24ndL3

— Lura Groen (@lura_groen) April 30, 2020
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Did it work? pic.twitter.com/D6jLnR5Aku

— Lura Groen (@lura_groen) April 28, 2020
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God is fat. And She twerks marvelously.

And you know what? You don’t fucking know if She has diabetes. And it’s none of your fucking business. She’s glorious either way.

— Lura Groen (@lura_groen) January 9, 2020
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In the next post Rev. Lura Groen shared an article titled "What Promiscuity Taught Me About God's Love." The article was from QueerTheology.com. 
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I honestly believe it’s our shame that has perverted our sexuality. Shame that had been too often taught by the church.

Trying to control the gender and sexuality God has given people twists it into terrible things.

— Lura Groen (@lura_groen) April 29, 2020

I don’t know who needs to hear this* but:

Feeling your anger can be fucking revolutionary.

— Lura Groen (@lura_groen) July 26, 2019

Sometimes I say fuck, but usually only when I’m talking about holiness, so now you’re prepared.

— Lura Groen (@lura_groen) July 22, 2019

It’s ok to not know your gender.

It’s ok to change your mind about your gender.

It’s ok to not have a gender at all.

You are ok. You are good.

— Lura Groen (@lura_groen) July 19, 2019
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Unpopular opinion: Divorce can be a really good thing, and more people should probably get them. https://t.co/PHyEVaPGNd

— Lura Groen (@lura_groen) July 16, 2019
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Now I’m Queer. Not just LGBT, as in let’s expand heteronormative relationship structures to same sex people, but Queer, as in, fuck heteronormative relationship structures, because they’re based in capitalism and white supremacy.

— Lura Groen (@lura_groen) May 1, 2020
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ELCA Marches on ICE

9/11/2019

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The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) met last month for their 2019 Churchwide Assembly.  One event scheduled was a march to an ICE building in support of migrants, immigrants and illegal immigrants.  Below are social media entries of the event from the ELCA, ELCA participants and observers:

Around 750 Lutherans, including voting members of the ELCA Churchwide Assembly, gathered for a prayer vigil in support of migrant children & families. They walked from the Wisconsin Center to U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services. #ELCAcwa

More photos: https://t.co/dEEEKEMEUF pic.twitter.com/SJUlmWYuSp

— ELCA Lutherans (@ELCA) August 7, 2019

Synod voting members joined 600 others to rally & march to ICE in Milwaukee. #AMMPARO #elcacwa #lutheransnw pic.twitter.com/wLH9d0zwgq

— NWWA Synod ELCA (@LutheransNW) August 7, 2019
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As a commitment to justice and prayer for migrants detained at the border, close to 1000 participants of the ELCA Churchwide Assembly marched to the local USCIS field office for a prayer vigil lead by ELCA AMMPARO, the Greater Milwaukee Synod, and other partners. #ELCA #ELCAcwa pic.twitter.com/t0HNqZyWWg

— LDR (@ELCALDR) August 7, 2019

Thankful that this march and public immigration vigil was a part of the ELCA Churchwide Assembly this week in Milwaukee. No other official business was scheduled during the same time, so nearly 700 people... https://t.co/Lihs4ieKVB

— Elizabeth Bier (@revelizabeth001) August 7, 2019

#recap of the elca #AMMPARO prayer walk #familiesbelongtogether #imigrants #refugees #welcomedhere #allarewelcome https://t.co/iUUZExXqQx

— JenCollins (@prjencollins) August 7, 2019

Great to see @ELCA partners out in front of MKE @ICEgov at #ELCAcwa protesting the horrific deportation policies based in racism that are tearing families apart! #ElPasoFirme pic.twitter.com/iyQKcMGtSw

— CWS (@CWS_global) August 7, 2019

Thankful for my colleagues and fellow ELCAers for leading this. #ELCA https://t.co/FF9qiCfaKS

— Eric Clapp (@eric_clapp) August 7, 2019

This is truly something. Two ELCA members told me 600+ are out today (w Voces as well). Milwaukee has seen at least two other similar marches in the last month with a couple hundred. This is another level. March to the DHS office continues pic.twitter.com/8NtptfbXVc

— Marisa Peryer (@marisa_peryer) August 7, 2019

Folks, today the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America is gathering at the Wisconsin Center to protest the Trump admin’s policies on immigration and asylum seekers. As always, follow along for pics, vids and updates pic.twitter.com/DCfjReBKbl

— Marisa Peryer (@marisa_peryer) August 7, 2019

All the angry feels #ELCA was https://t.co/PzA2QXfBRJ

— Courtney Smith (@cdsmith421) August 7, 2019

Love our church! #ELCA #ELCAcwa https://t.co/OPe4IJ1d5Y

— Aaron Sturgis (@sturgie19) August 7, 2019

Prayer vigil with the ELCA outside of the ICE offices in Milwaukee. pic.twitter.com/bmpbRRnjpQ

— Bro David A Hirt (@brodavidcap) August 7, 2019

Now chants of, “Justice for immigrants — here we stand!” #ELCAcwa

— Emily McFarlan Miller (@emmillerwrites) August 7, 2019

Signs seen at the ELCA Churchwide Assembly's prayer vigil outside the ICE building in Milwaukee. #ELCAcwa pic.twitter.com/TGCQXjzVcR

— Emily McFarlan Miller (@emmillerwrites) August 7, 2019

There also was a reading of the 9.5 Theses by the Greater Milwaukee Synod Refugee and Immigration Committee.

Inspired by Martin Luther nailing his 95 Theses to the church door in Wittenburg, they then taped them to the ICE building door (and staked them into the lawn). #ELCAcwa pic.twitter.com/Db64u4Dux6

— Emily McFarlan Miller (@emmillerwrites) August 7, 2019

Here's my first dispatch from Milwaukee about the ELCA declaring itself a "sanctuary church body" and marching to the ICE building in Milwaukee during its churchwide assembly at the Wisconsin Center, about a mile away. https://t.co/XmOftN7Qv0 #ELCAcwa pic.twitter.com/SR0qKJMdvP

— Emily McFarlan Miller (@emmillerwrites) August 8, 2019

More pics I took at https://t.co/EC3Yqru0Ct pic.twitter.com/u243HOXgZ0

— AaronLayne (@AaronLayne) August 8, 2019

ELCA Immigration vigil#closethecamps #ELCACW19 #justlove #faithinaction @WomenoftheELCA pic.twitter.com/aGdup7iUrw

— JenDeLeon@WELCA (@JenDeLeonWELCA1) August 8, 2019
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ELCA Urges People to Ask Police to Not Cooperate With ICE

6/23/2019

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Radicals are in charge of the ELCA. A few days ago, the ELCA came out on social media stating, "As ELCA Ammparo and ELCA Advocacy we encourage you to stand in solidarity with our immigrant neighbors. Therefore, we urge you to contact local leaders in your jurisdiction and urge sheriff and police not to participate in raids or cooperate with ICE in sharing information about immigrants at risk. (... and do urge police non-cooperation with ICE in the anticipated terrifying raids upon our neighbors)." 

The ELCA, by way of their departments named here, tell people to contact various Local Governments and Law Enforcement, urging them to not cooperate with other law enforcement agencies that are working to enforce the laws of our land. They are equipping people with scripts to aid in communication and dissemination of their agenda. The various scripts say similar things. Here is a quote from an ELCA-provided script, "...in light of the Trump Administration’s recent threats of mass arrests of immigrants next week, I want to make sure the XXX government does everything in its power to protect our residents. That means: 1) absolutely no coordination between XXX law enforcement and ICE;...3) the XXX jail must end its policy of notifying ICE when an inmate with an immigration detainer is released; and 4) no detention beds may be made available to ICE, even temporarily. Thank you." (See here)

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“Many are afraid & confused by potential ICE enforcement action. Pray and advocate for safety, well-being and family unity of immigrant sisters and brothers,” says Trini Ariztia, migration program dir. See https://t.co/CZJVpwtd4v and Know Your Rights at https://t.co/vcgLTqMy8m pic.twitter.com/trx1SYlagv

— ELCA Advocacy (@ELCAadvocacy) June 22, 2019

"The words "mass deportation" should send shockwaves through the conscience of anyone who knows anything about the brutalities of the 20th century."https://t.co/eCJ1cBoXRW

— DE-MD Synod ELCA (@ELCAdemdsynod) June 22, 2019

Below is ELCA pastor Jayne Thompson who tweets to a U.S. Senator "...Please go to Clint, TX or Homestead, FL or any ICE detention center/prison and visit the children incarcerated and abused the hands of the/our/your/my government. Sincerely, your new constituent, ELCA Pastor Jayne M Thompson"

Hey...PSA...Please go to Clint, TX or Homestead, FL or any ICE detention center/prison and visit the children incarcerated and abused the hands of the/our/your/my government.

Sincerely, your new constituent, ELCA Pastor Jayne M Thompson

— Pr. Jayne Thompson (@prjayne) June 25, 2019
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Arrest By ICE Has ELCA Leaders Up In Arms

5/16/2019

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Betty Rendon is an ELCA Synodically Authorized Lay Minister at an ELCA church and received her Masters of Divinity from the ELCA's Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC). A few days ago, she and some family members were arrested by ICE, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

So far we do not have many details about the incident, except what ELCA entities are saying. It all started with a one-sided account from Betty Rendon's church. You can read it here.

Then the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's presiding bishop began tweeting about the situation.

Pr Betty Rendon, Emaus Lutheran Racine along with daughter, husband, cousin arrested at gun point by ICE. Five yr old granddaughter was present. Pr Rendon beginning PhD at LSTC. Rally tomorrow night (5/15) in Racine. She fled Columbia when her school was attacked by guerrillas.

— Bishop Eaton (@ELCABishopEaton) May 14, 2019

More details. Betty Lendin has an MDiv from LSTC was accepted into the DMin program. She is a Synodically Authorized Lay Minister preaching at Emaus.

— Bishop Eaton (@ELCABishopEaton) May 15, 2019

​A letter about the situation was posted by the ELCA's Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC) from President James Nieman, Dean of Student Services Scott Chalmers and Pastor to the Community Erik Christensen. 

In the letter they call the United States' immigration policy "racist." Here is the quote (see below also), "
This incident brings into painful focus the ongoing need to reform this country’s racist, violent, and inhumane immigration system."

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Of course, ELCA Advocacy had something to say. Below is part of an email they sent (see the full email here):

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ELCA partner, the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service commented:
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​"This is absolutely heartbreaking and shameful behavior on behalf of ICE officers. LIRS will pray for and advocate for the just treatment of Pastor Rendón and all those who find themselves in her position."
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Some of the readers of the LIRS Facebook post commented saying, "We are becoming like a Hitler state..." "I am ashamed of our country..." "ICE equals deliberate cruelty." "ICE has no humanity....this is like the Nazi era." "We are very close to becoming a communist nation, Trumps SS is ICE. The time is near for all Americans to March on Washington!" "Abolish ICE." "Our government is looking more and more like murderous criminals." "ICE is disgraceful." 

A newspaper article titled ICE allegedly arrests Racine student pastor; Vigil planned for Wednesday can be seen here.  
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A seminary classmate of Betty Rendon added his 2 cents:
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Benjamin Stewart, a Professor & Director of Advanced Studies at LSTC tweeted that the "family was terrorized & separated":

An asylum-seeking @elca minister & her family terrorized & separated - my former @LSTChicago student Betty Rendon. Read the horrific account from her congregation https://t.co/2yTj8hZTsg
(corrected LSTC tag) pic.twitter.com/CQiZQceKuf

— Benjamin Stewart (@bstewLSTC) May 15, 2019

​ELCA pastor Chad McKenna writes "#AbolishICE":

According to this article, ICE arrested her daughters first. Her children. ICE arrested a DACA recipient and a U.S. Citizen at one location before pointing their guns at three unarmed adults who have long been in the process of seeking asylum. #AbolishICE https://t.co/CJJG8POKnB

— Chad McKenna (@cmckennaiv) May 15, 2019

​From ELCA Pastor Paul Eldred:

Betty Rendón, pastor of an @ELCA church in Wisconsin, was arrested at gunpoint by ICE along with her family. She fled Colombia and sought refuge in the US.
Another shameful act by this administration.
Please pray for her, her family, and her congregation. And then demand change! https://t.co/jt0s37b983

— Paul Eldred (@pmceldred) May 15, 2019

The DE-MD Synod tweeted:

Grateful for @ELCABishopEaton and her witness on behalf of Betty Rendon. https://t.co/fvXAiVSrL2

— DE-MD Synod ELCA (@ELCAdemdsynod) May 15, 2019

Matthew Short, the Assistant to the Bishop for Evangelical Mission at Greater Milwaukee Synod, was part of a gathering outside Betty Rendon's detention center. Below is his Facebook post about it:


More from the ELCA's Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago:


And from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America:


Here is a statement by the ELCA's Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod Bishop, Michael Rinehart. 

Here is a statement by the ELCA's New England Synod Bishop, James Hazelwood.


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