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		<title>Eight Is (More than) Enough: Of Seminaries and Church Support</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Father Anonymous at Magdalene&#8217;s Egg recently posted about faculty changes at Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, which will shortly be completing its merger with Lenoir-Rhyne University. In the process of the merger, three faculty members will be leaving, their positions being eliminated. A little background is in order for any who may not be familiar with [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Friday Bidding Prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Christianson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Good Friday service at my church was good and well done. But I have to say that the Bidding Prayer is sticking in my craw. The Bidding Prayer is a traditional part of the Good Friday liturgy. It consists of a serious of calls to prayer, a short silences, and prayers by the leader [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Structural Engineering the ELCA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Christianson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ELCA, facing budget shortfalls, is forced to restructure it's churchwide organization.  But the restructuring is flawed with misplaced priorities and a failure to address the real structural problem it faces.]]></description>
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		<title>Reconfiguration of Lutheranism. Really?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Christianson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the conservative, traditionalist, and dissident group Lutheran CORE released it&#8217;s vision for what the group&#8217;s press release called &#8220;the reconfiguration of Lutheranism in North America.&#8221;  It calls for the establishment of a new church body with the suggested name of the North American Lutheran Church. The description of this vision can be found here: [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Holy Places</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Christianson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s post responded to certain streams of thought in the church about it&#8217;s future and the needs for reform and change in our life together. As a starting point, it used Walter Russell Mead&#8217;s blog entry called The Holy Crap Must Go. In that essay, Mead says that the church is unnecessarily burdened by maintaining [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Identity Crisis, Not Structural Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of friends pointed out an interesting blog entry by Walter Russell Mead (son of Loren Mead) titled The Holy Crap Must Go. Mead notes the troubled finances and struggles for existence of many congregations, church bodies, and seminaries. Seminaries have been closing. Regional and national church budgets have been shrinking or strained. Many [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The ELCA&#8217;s Late Entry on Ugandan Anti-gay Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Christianson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now you may have heard something about the anti-gay bill that&#8217;s been introduced into the parliament of Uganda. It offers severe penalties for the offense of &#8220;homosexuality,&#8221; up to and including death. For background on the bill, you might look here and here, and extensive coverage of the bill and surrounding issues can be [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Setting Aside Good Order in the ELCA?</title>
		<link>http://www.restenergy.net/oddments/2009/11/setting-aside-good-order-in-the-elca/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Christianson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) these days is anything put peaceful and easy. Since the Churchwide Assembly in August passed a social statement on human sexuality (here, PDF) and resolutions to allow gay and lesbian individuals who are committed and monogamous same-sex relationships to serve as pastors of the church (here, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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