pretty good lutherans

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 8:
+Beloit Daily News (Wis.): "Illinois church breaks away from ELCA over gay clergy issue"
+LWR Press Release: "Lutheran World Relief commits $200,000 to Pakistan flood relief"
+Journal of Lutheran Ethics: "Liturgical ethics"
+Ecumenical News Service: "Some offended by miniature Martin Lutherans on Wittenberg market square"
+LWF News: "Lutheran World Federation president urges humanitarian relief coordination in Pakistan"
+Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg (Pa.): "Book reviews"
+The Citizen (Ga.): "Wiese to be installed as senior pastor at Christ Our Shepherd Lutheran Church"
+Star Tribune (Minn.): "R.I.P. -- The Rev. William A. Smith, teacher and counselor"
+Fargo Forum (N.D.): "Hawley church schedules vote on the ELCA"
+St. Louis Block Shopper: "Former Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod president lists house for sale at $648,000"
+Iceland Review: "Former bishop's alleged sexual violation thrusts State Church of Iceland into crisis"
+LSTC News: "Three students from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago receive national fellowships"
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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 8:

Guest Blogger


Valerie Elverton Dixon
Religion scholar, ethicist
"Park 51 and America's
Unresolved Pain"

ELCA bloggers


Kelly Fryer
A Renewal Enterprise
Chicago, Ill.
"New Ways of
Working Together"


Paul Pribbenow
President, Augsburg College
Minneapolis, Minn.
"Education and Service"


Kristin Berkey-Abbott
Poet, scholar, administrator
Hollywood, Fla.
"Meditation On This
Sunday's Gospel"


Pastor Keith Anderson
Lutheran Church of the Redeemer
Woburn, Mass.
"Almost Christian"


Martha Stortz
Augsburg College
Minneapolis, Minn.
"Slowing Down"


Pastor Chris Duckworth
Resurrection Evangelical
Lutheran Church
Arlington, Va.
"Teaching The Bible
In Confirmation Class"
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Divinity and Beyond (Religion Across Minnesota)

Martin (Journeys of a Post-Reformation Bobblehead)
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The following individuals are known murder victims with ELCA ties killed since Pretty Good Lutherans was started in September 2009:

2010
+1st Lt. Christopher Goeke, 23, of St. Paul, Minn. (July - killed in Afghanistan)
+Sean Griffin, 40, of Boulder, Colo. (May)
+Staci Griffin, 41, of Boulder, Colo. (May)
+Douglas J. Klages, 46, of Spokane, Wash. (April)
+Dennis Koula, 68, Barre, Wis. (May)
+Merna Koula, 65, Barre, Wis. (May)
+Annah Helen-Mae Magdzas, unborn, (Aug.)
+April Magdzas, 26, Superior, Wis. (Aug.)
+Lisa Jean Magdzas, 1, Superior, Wis. (Aug.)
+Denise Merhi, 62, Whitehall Township, Pa. (July)
+Billy "Peanut" Murphy, 47, of Bronx, N.Y. (Aug.)
+Carol Hales Parsons, 38, of Lakewood, Wash. (March)
+Devon Resh, 19, of Eagle Grove, Iowa (May)
+Marine Lance Corp. Curtis Swenson, 20, of Rochester, Minn. (April)

2009
+Army Spc.Paul Eugene Andersen, 49, South Bend, Ind. (Oct.)
+Faith Bisasor, age unknown, of Miramar, Fla. (Aug.)
+Davian Bishop, 15, of Mirama, Fla. (Aug.)
+Donald R. Luetjen, 64, Cole Camp, Mo. (June)
+Sharon K. Luetjen, 61, Cole Camp, Mo. (June)
+Taron D. Luetjen, 15, Cole Camp, Mo. (June)
+David Palm, 43, Town of Edgewater, Wis. (Nov.)
+Laura S. Pierce, 42, Omaha, Neb. (Jan.)
+Cindy Sumner, 21, North Toledo, Ohio (August)
+George R. Tiller, 67, Wichita, Kan. (May)