Keynote Speaker At 2018 ELCA Youth Gathering is the Co-Creator of the "Fuck This Shit" Devotional

(Language warning. My apologies for using the vile words of this ELCA Pastor. But with so many teenagers going to this event, people need to know what kind of teacher will be speaking to their children and also what the ELCA leadership finds good and acceptable to place in front of these students as a teacher and role model)

The 2018 ELCA Youth Gathering, occurring this summer, recently announced that the ELCA's Rev. Tuhina Verma Rasche will be a keynote speaker at their national gathering/conference. Here is their announcement:
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Parents sending their teenagers to the ELCA Youth Gathering are entrusting their children to the ELCA, to care for and properly instruct them in Christ-honoring ways and with Christ-honoring content. It is a mistake. The ELCA has proven to be an extremely liberal denomination that twists, ignores and violates God's Word. And the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has proven again that they can not be trusted, by asking Pastor Tuhina Verma Rasche, an outspoken radical and controversial pastor, who gained fame in the ELCA for co-authoring the "Fuck This Shit" devotional, to be a keynote speaker. Here is a screenshot of the devotional written by Rev. Rasche:

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-  A follow-up Advent devotional, co-authored by Rev. Tuhina Verma Rasche, is called #ShutTheHellUp. (see here)

​Rev. Tuhina Verma Rasche will be speaking to an estimated 30,000 young people who are coming, from all over the United States, to the ELCA Youth Gathering held in Houston, Texas. (Who will each pay around $400 to attend.)

-  If that isn't bad enough, ELCA pastor and Youth Gathering speaker, Tuhina Verma Rasche, stood in agreement with a sex-obsessed ELCA group called "Naked and Unashamed" when she signed a statement by the group, which in part said,

“We are ELCA Lutherans…The plethora of stories we hear in our conversations demonstrate that life and liberty are being oppressed in the pressure for church leaders to be in marital relationships, or otherwise abstain from all sexual intimacy. The common good of both parishioners and church leaders would benefit from the freedom to be in a variety of healthy relationships…”

A specific change the group would like to see in ELCA official documents is: "No longer privileging marriage as the only acceptable form of sexual relationality." (see here)

Tuhina Verma Rasche isn't the only ELCA 2018 Youth Gathering keynote speaker who signed the "Naked and Unashamed" statement.  ELCA Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber did also. (read more about "Naked and Unashamed" here)

-  Rev. Tuhina Verma Rasche says she is a "Networker" for another radical ELCA group called #decolonizeLutheranism. (see here)

As you contemplate what you have just read and what you will read below, ask yourself if Pastor Tuhina Verma Rasche is the kind of person you want challenging, instructing and motivating your teenagers. Also ask if you should trust the ELCA with your teenager's spiritual growth. Events like this have potential for enormous impact in the lives of young people. Many make commitments and respond to challenges given. What type of commitments will they be called to make? What kind of messages will they be asked to respond to, in their thinking and actions?

Additionally, the 2018 ELCA Youth Gathering will have a transgender child and his trans advocate mother speak. (see here) As well as many extreme, radical groups hosting “Interactive Learning" booths at the Gathering. (see here) 

If you are a parent of a teenager scheduled to go to the 2018 ELCA Youth Gathering, I recommend you cancel their trip. Additionally, if you know of students attending, call your church leader and recommend the church cancel their plans to go. Choose something that will lead them to know and follow Jesus, an experience that will lead them into a greater understanding of God's Word rather than being influenced by leaders with this type of message:

-  In a blog by ELCA Pastor Rasche, she writes, 

"I am so fucking furious right now."  And,
"The United States, a nation built on white supremacy, decided that it would rather be white than the silly and stupid metaphors of a melting pot and a salad bowl I learned about in my civics classes." (see here)

- Below are tweets by ELCA Pastor Rasche going back to the first of the year. In her tweets you will find lots of anger, demonization of white males, racist comments about white people, liberal politics, gay pride, trans pride and anger at the United States of America. 
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Yet again, I get to watch white folks lose their shit at airports.

Fascinating.

— Tuhina Verma Rasche (@tvrasche) March 12, 2018

Dear @ABCPolitics, fix your tweet. White people as terrorists exists in the US. https://t.co/EwGULVyGhK

— Tuhina Verma Rasche (@tvrasche) March 6, 2018

#InternationalWomensDay #TransWomenAreWomen https://t.co/x6DBLyr1Zx

— Tuhina Verma Rasche (@tvrasche) March 8, 2018

Dear Jeff Sessions, Please leave CA and return to the swamp you crawled out of.

— Tuhina Verma Rasche (@tvrasche) March 7, 2018

So when 45 says he wants to arm teachers, he means the white ones.

— Tuhina Verma Rasche (@tvrasche) February 23, 2018

17 more children sacrificed upon the altar of Mammon. Y’all who continue to be against gun control yet offer your thoughts & prayers? #Parkland shows those thoughts & prayers continue to be worthless.

— Tuhina Verma Rasche (@tvrasche) February 14, 2018

The foundation of the United States has always been about profiteering on the bodies of human beings who are not wealthy white male landowners. This profiteering is becoming that much more explicit with 45’s regime.

— Tuhina Verma Rasche (@tvrasche) February 13, 2018

There I go again, upsetting "well-meaning" & fragile white male folk on my denomination's clergy FB page.

*sigh*

— Tuhina Verma Rasche (@tvrasche) February 8, 2018

#SOTU is nothing but fear-based rhetoric to pit white “christian” supremacists against “the other.”

— Tuhina Verma Rasche (@tvrasche) January 31, 2018

Just in case you were wondering while watching #SOTU pic.twitter.com/9I0RPlvMAn

— Tuhina Verma Rasche (@tvrasche) January 31, 2018

Y’all. This is all just him spewing imperialist bullshit & exciting white “christian” supremacists. #SOTU

— Tuhina Verma Rasche (@tvrasche) January 31, 2018

The “American Dream” is code to hold on to white supremacy. #SOTU

— Tuhina Verma Rasche (@tvrasche) January 31, 2018

Dear #WhiteChristianAmerica, the #SOTU continues to show that y’all nailed it by sacrificing yourselves on the altar of Mammon.

— Tuhina Verma Rasche (@tvrasche) January 31, 2018

Who is on your go-to list of prophetic voices in the world today (that are not cishet white men)?

— Tuhina Verma Rasche (@tvrasche) January 29, 2018

Whiteness is such a hell of a drug, white people are willing to blow up the entire fucking world in order to maintain white supremacy.

— Tuhina Verma Rasche (@tvrasche) January 3, 2018

2017 was the year of wanderings. Celebrating my birthday in Seattle, soaking my feet in the Sea of Galilee, celebrating Pride in the LBC, protesting in Portland, and getting new ink in New York. When I was home, it was spent celebrating 13 years of marriage with the spouse, … pic.twitter.com/BlflVqIpd4

— Tuhina Verma Rasche (@tvrasche) January 1, 2018