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ELCA Congregations Celebrate Evolution Weekend

2/10/2016

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Exposing the ELCA has been documenting for years that the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's leadership does not believe the Creation account God placed in Scripture.  (read about 1500+ ELCA leaders signing a letter in support of evolution here. Also scroll down the page here to find a bunch of ELCA evolution related information)

Let me give you another example from the ELCA's official magazine, The Lutheran -

“It’s hard to believe that any ancient writer would have penned the Genesis story for the sake of recording good science. If that was the author’s intent, he (or they) failed miserably. The early chapters of Genesis make for lousy empirical science. Not that this has kept numbers of Christians from trying to cram every dinosaur jawbone, distant galaxy and Grand Canyon formation into the span of the last 6,000 years.
The Genesis story was never meant to tell us how the world was created. It is rather a masterful treatise for informing us who created this floating orb in its magnificent universe. From the story, we learn that God appreciates beauty, design and order over ugliness, nonsense and chaos. One doesn’t have to tread far into Scripture before discovering that humans were created for relationship with God and one another. These convictions of faith are hardly at the heart of scientific inquiry.” (see here)
 
The ELCA is trying to discredit the historical account of Genesis in this paragraph because they have decided that God did not, as He said, create the universe in six 24 hour days.
 
And that brings us to Evolution Weekend! (February 12 - 14, 2016)

The pro-evolution website, "The Clergy Letter Project," which organizes this event says, "Evolution Weekend is an opportunity for serious discussion and reflection on the relationship between religion and science."

“Religious people from many diverse faith traditions and locations around the world understand that evolution is quite simply sound science.”

Of course there are ELCA churches participating. They participate "through sermons, discussion groups, meaningful conversations and seminars..." conducted by each individual church.

ELCA churches and/or pastors signed up to participate in Evolution Weekend 2016

Spirit of Joy Lutheran Church of the Verde Valley, ELCA Clarkdale, AZ
The Rev. Dr. Mari Larson
The. Rev. Ed Womack
 
Peace Lutheran Church
 Corona, CA
 Pastor Mark Allert
 
Christ Lutheran Church
 Long Beach, CA
 The Rev. Pamela Challis
 
Christ Church Lutheran, ELCA
San Francisco, CA
 The Rev. John Frykman
 
First United Lutheran Church
 San Francisco, CA
 The Rev. Dr. Susan M. Strouse
 
St. Paul Lutheran Church
 Tampa, FL
 The Rev. Russell L. Meyer
 Executive Director of the Florida Council of Churches
 
St Paul Lutheran Church
 Villa Park, IL
 Stephen H. Swanson, Pastor
 
Redeemer Lutheran Church
 Waverly, IA
 Dr. Stephen Main
 
Wartburg College
 Waverly, IA
 Dr. Brian C. Jones
 
 Zion Lutheran Church
 Warroad, MN
 The Rev. Krehl Stringer
 

Hope Lutheran Church
 Bozeman, MT
 The Rev. Stephen R. Schmidt
 
Augustana Lutheran Church
 Omaha, NE
 The Rev. Jan Peterson
 
St. Andrew Lutheran Church
 Parsippany, NJ
 The Rev. Frederick L. Lentz, Pastor
 
 Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church
 Santa Fe, NM
 The Rev. Joene Herr, Pastor
 

Lutheran Care Center
 Poughkeepsie, NY
 Pastor John Heller
 
All Shepherds Lutheran Church
 Lewis Center, OH
 Pastor Glen Bengson
 
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
 Easton, PA
 Pastor Michael L. Reist
 
St. Matthew Lutheran Church
 Williamsport, PA
 The Rev. Theodore L. Cockley, Interim Pastor
 
Messiah Lutheran Church
 Knoxville, TN
 Dr. Gordon Burghardt
 
MacArthur Park Lutheran Church
 San Antonio, TX
 The Rev. Paul Ziese
 
Pacific Lutheran University Congregation
 Tacoma, WA
 The Rev. John P. Rosenberg
 
Advent Lutheran Church
 Cedarburg, WI
 The Rev. Dr. Janis Kinens
 
Grace Lutheran Church
 Eau Claire, WI
 The Rev. Dean Simpson
 
http://theclergyletterproject.org/rel_
​evolution_weekend_2016.html

 

 

ELCA churches and/or pastors who participated in Evolution Weekend 2015


University Lutheran Chapel (ELCA)
Berkeley, CA
The Rev. Jeff R. Johnson


Peace Lutheran Church
Corona, CA
Pastor Mark Allert

St. Timothy Lutheran Church
Monterey, CA
Pastor Clark Brown
 
Cross and Crown Lutheran Church and School, ELCA
Rohnert Park, CA
 
First United Lutheran Church
San Francisco, CA
The Rev. Dr. Susan M. Strouse
 
King of Kings Lutheran Church (ELCA)
Pueblo, CO
The Rev. Dirk R. Stadtlander


All Saints Lutheran Church
Lutz, FL
The Rev. M. Richard Malivuk, Pastor


St. Michael Lutheran Church
Wellington, FL
Pastor Marjorie Weiss
 
St Paul Lutheran Church
Villa Park, IL
Stephen H. Swanson, Pastor

St. Paul Lutheran Church (ELCA)
Wheaton, IL
The Rev. Melody Beckman Eastman, Senior Pastor

Messiah Lutheran Church
Knoxville, TN
Dr. Gordon Burghardt
 
Shalom Lutheran Church
Alexandria, MN
The Rev. Rollen Halvorson
 
Faith United Lutheran Church
Iron, MN
The Rev. Krehl Stringer
 
Hope Lutheran Church
Bozeman, MT
The Rev. Stephen R. Schmidt, Lead Pastor

Augustana Lutheran Church
Omaha, NE
The Rev. Jan Peterson
 
Emanuel Lutheran Church
New Brunswick, NJ
Jeffrey C. Eaton, Pastor
 
Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd
Brooklyn, NY
The Rev. David Rommereim

All Shepherds Lutheran Church
Lewis Center, OH
Pastor Glen Bengson
 

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Easton, PA
Pastor Michael L. Reist

Buffalo Valley Lutheran Village
Lewisburg, PA
The Rev. Theodore L. Cockley

St. Peter's Lutheran Church
Pen Argyl, PA
The Rev. C. Frank Terhune

University Lutheran Church
Philadelphia, PA
The Rev. Nelson Rivera

The Rev. Dr. Charles W. Allen, Chaplain
MacArthur Park Lutheran Church
San Antonio, TX
The Rev. Paul Ziese

Epiphany Lutheran Church (ELCA)
Alexandria, VA
The Rev. Dr. Charles H. Oberkehr

Prince of Peace Lutheran Church
Forks, WA
Pastor Pam Hunter

Advent Lutheran Church
Cedarburg, WI
The Rev. Dr. Janis Kinens
 
Grace Lutheran Church
Eau Claire, WI
The Rev. Dean Simpson

Trinity Lutheran Church
South Milwaukee, WI
Pastor Bill Mains

Bay Shore Lutheran Church
Whitefish Bay, WI
Pastor Norene Smith

http://theclergyletterproject.org/rel
​_evolution_weekend_2015.html
3 Comments
John
2/12/2016 09:09:54 pm

Dan, thanks for continuing your mission here.
I am a Christian and a scientist, too (a chemist, in particular). I doubt any of the undersigned have spent much time studying evolution, its strange history of revision and fraud over the last 150 years, the odd lack of evidence or theory for macroevolution, and the holes that still pervade the evolutionary hypothesis. Strange that so many insist on calling macroevolution a fact, but recoil from calling it an extrapolation (which it is by definition).

I went to the original website to read Mr. Marty's article as far as I could without subscribing. I could not help but notice that his only mention of Christ was in the term "Christians," which he only applies to those who support (young earth) creationism. Does he consider himself to be writing on behalf of Christians, or against us? And I noticed the irony of his statement that "The early chapters of Genesis make for lousy empirical science." How many chapters of The Lutheran would count as sound empirical science?

God invented science (Prov 8:22-31). Let that statement be the premise for all who believe in the creator God. Then read Mr. Marty's article, and ask yourself, does it make sense?

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Ray Bebee
2/15/2016 03:31:52 pm

Science is the study of God's creation.

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George
2/16/2016 08:14:50 pm

...and your point, Mr. Bebee?

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