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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) Rev. Duncan then says implementing his vision for the ELCA will bring about church vitality, that sanctuaries will swell.
- “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) 
- 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)
(See above article http://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2019/07/queer-lutheran-preacher-calls-on-church-to-end-white-supremacy/
- At this time Lenny Duncan was the pastor at Jehu's Table:
- From ELCA Bishop Patricia Davenport, of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod.
- Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton appeared in a film made by Lenny Duncan. 
- 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.
- 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.
5 Comments
born again
10/1/2020 02:44:45 pm
I don't want to be insensitive to anyone because I'm simply a non-Lutheran that has been dragged to ELCA services over the years. But, I am not so sure parishioners in the ELCA churches are conservative, Bible-believers. I have run into a very few conservatives politically. Also, I have attended some of their 'education' classes where the parishioners nod their heads in agreement with the left wing garbage fed to them by the theologians leading the group. So, they may be out there, but not so sure they are the majority, in my experience.
Didaskalos
10/1/2020 05:16:32 pm
Duncan: "The message of Jesus is radical and political." He's half right. "Repent and believe the gospel" is radical. It's too radical for the universalism-preaching ELCA, which -- contra Jesus, the Bible, and Martin Luther -- offers cheap grace, described by confessional Lutheran Dietrich Bonhoeffer as "the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance...grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ."
Bryan
10/2/2020 11:34:13 am
Lots of fame to be had and money to be made being a SJW... 10/3/2020 05:13:23 am
Duncan's a very selective SJW who -- in the mold of the leadership hierarchy of ELCA bishops, seminary professors, and pastors -- ignores every Bible truth, reproof, and admonition that doesn't fit the ELCA's world-pleasing agenda.
Sherianne Molzahn Caldwell
3/5/2021 12:40:51 pm
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! Finally someone who speaks the truth about the underside of the ELCA......Pastor Lenny is just what this church needs to drag itself out of the gutter and into the light. He is the future of the Lutheran Church. Awesome. Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
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