CORE/LCMC/NALC

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September 2010
+Reading Eagle (Pa.): “Local Lutherans seek options first”
+Standard-Examiner (Utah): “Pastor explains members’ decision to change affiliations”
+Lincoln Courier (Ill.): “St. Peter Lutheran Church in Emden votes to leave the ELCA”

August 2010
+Free Press (Minn.): “Former ELCA Presiding Bishop Herb Chilstrom has questions for those leaving the denomination”
+KELO (S.D.): “South Dakota ELCA bishop speaks out about breakaway Lutheran denomination”
+KELO (S.D.): “South Dakota ELCA bishop speaks out about breakaway Lutheran denomination”
+Queerty: “Lutherans angry at church acceptance of gay clergy form acronym we’re going to have to remember”
*North America Lutheran Church: “Press Release”
*Argus Leader: “Church split follows years of infighting”
*Argus Leader (S.D.): “Brookings seminary to help mold pastors for new church”
*Christianity Today Blog: “Convocation inaugurates new Lutheran body”
* Springfield News-Sun (Ohio): “Lutheran rift has local impact”
*USA Today: “Lutherans opposed to gay clergy form new U.S. denomination”
*Mason City Globe Gazette (Iowa): “Members of Zion Lutheran Church in Clear Lake ponder the future”
*Lincoln Journal Star: “Seward Lutheran congregation splits into a new church”
*Augusta Chronicle (Ga.): “Two pastors, two different reactions to Minneapolis assembly and the vote on partnered gays and lesbians”
*Columbus Dispatch: “New Lutheran denomination underway”
*Associated Press: “Lutherans split over gay pastors, Bible beliefs”
*The Advocate: “Lutherans break over gay pastors”
*Superior Telegram (Wis.): “Is ELCA pastor rushing to forgiveness in triple homicide?”
*Columbus Dispatch (Ohio): “ELCA Pastor Scott Seek”s screenplay started in Bexley seminary”
*Argus Leader (S.D.): “New Lutheran denomination set to launch”
*CBN News: “New Lutheran Denomination to launch today”
*Salt Lake Tribune: “Roy church may leave the ELCA”
*KCRA-TV3 (Calif.): “Big fat Lutheran wedding brings trouble for California mayor”
*Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Wis.): “Lutherans help flood victims”
*Carroll County Times: “Lutheran church issues new cookbook”
*Columbus Dispatch: “New Lutheran denomination expects to have 200 congregations by the end of next year”
*Metro Lutheran: “Lutheran Volunteer Corps experiences significant growth”
*Waseca County News: “Lutherans and Methodists to worship together”
*ELM: “Pastor Dale Poland reinstated to ELCA clergy roster”
*Star Tribune (Minn.): “Lutherans bowed but not broken by debate over gay and lesbian clergy”
*Columbus Dispatch (Ohio): “Conservative Lutherans gather here to launch new denomination”
*Religion News Service: “Conservative Lutherans form new denomination”
*Grand Forks Herald (N.D.): “Ex-ELCAers to form new denomination at Ohio conference”
*Star Tribune (Minn.): “Lutherans bowed but not broken by debate over gay and lesbian clergy”
*LaCrosse Tribune: “Gay clergy in the ELCA — progress or blasphemy?”
*Orlando Sentinel: “North American Lutheran Church to be created at Aug. 26 convocation”
*Centre Daily Times (Pa.): “New Lutheran denomination turns to Pastor Paull Spring”
*Dayton Daily News (Ohio): “Lutherans breaking with ELCA over gay clergy”
*San Antonio News-Express (Texas): “Lutheran branch gives members power”
*The Free Press (Minn.): “Waseca Lutheran church has faith in the break”
*Victoria Advocate (Texas): “Zion Lutheran Church plans ceremony as it joins Missouri Synod”
*First Things: “Here I walk, I cannot do otherwise”
*Argus Leaders (S.D.): “As ELCA splits, South Dakota seminary may benefit”
*Fargo Forum (N.D.): “The ELCA is a denomination divided”
*Fargo Forum (N.D.): “The ELCA is a denomination in flux”
*First Things Blog: “How do we live now?”
*Fargo Forum (N.D.): “Mabel Lutheran Church in Sutton passes first vote to leave the ELCA”
*Lutheran CORE: “The Rev. Paull Spring nominated for NALC bishop”
*KIMT-TV 3 (Iowa): “Zion Lutheran Church in Clear Lake to take second vote on whether to stay with the ELCA”
*Lutheran CORE: “Provisional Constitution, North American Lutheran Church”

July 2010
*Brenham Banner-Press: “Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church to vote Sunday on whether to stay in the ELCA”
*Bismarck Tribune (N.D.): “ELCA congregations grapple with new clergy guidelines”
*Bismarck Tribune (N.D.): “Some congregations left the ELCA”
*St. Cloud Times (Minn.): “Gay-pastor debate prompts Lutheran church divide, sparks new congregation
*Bismarck Tribune (N.D.): “ELCA congregations grapple with new clergy guidelines”
*Bismarck Tribune (N.D.): “Some congregations left the ELCA”
*Lakeland Ledger (Fla.): “Faith Lutheran Church to sever ties with the ELCA”
*Fargo Forum (N.D.): “Three Fargo churches resume giving to the ELCA”
*Mansfield News-Journal: “St. Michael Lutheran Church, which left the ELCA recently, to celebrate 175th anniversary
*Hickory Record (N.C.): “Vote confirms congregation’s intent to join a new church”
*Fargo Forum (N.D.): “Three more churches leaving the ELCA”
*Huffington Post: “Tanzanian Lutheran leader backtracks on U.S. donations”

June 2010
*Detroit Lakes News (Minn.): “Unhappy over gays in ministry, Lund church may abandon ELCA”
*Grand Forks Herald (N.D.): “Members leave Harvey church after vote to disaffiliate with ELCA fails”
*Anniston Star (Ala.): “Trinity Lutheran Church decides to stay with the ELCA”
*Columbus Dispatch (Ohio): “Upper Arlington Lutheran Church votes to leave the ELCA”
*Billings Gazette: “New Lutheran church opposes national changes”
*St. Paul Pioneer Press: Sudden departure of pastor stirs controversy at King of Kings Church in in Woodbury, Minn.
*Fargo Forum: “700-member Long Prairie (Minn.) congregation votes to leave ELCA”
*York Daily Record (Pa.): “ELCA church votes to leave”
*Fargo Forum (N.D.): “A church divided”
*Rapid City Journal: “Split votes on gay issues reflects divisions in ELCA”
*Blogger: “Upper Arlington Lutheran Church votes to leave ELCA”
*North County Times (Calif.): “Christ the King Lutheran Church in Fallbrook votes to leave the ELCA”
*North Virginia Daily: “Winchester Lutherans moving on from ELCA”
*Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier (Iowa): “Hudson church splits with national ELCA organization”
*ELCA Blogger: “June numbers of ELCA congregational defections” (Note: the blogger is not a member of Lutheran CORE, LCMC, etc.)
*First Things: “The Pastor’s Page”*Woodbury Bulletin (Minn.): “Founding pastor is leaving Minnesota church after months of conflict over the ELCA’s openness to partnered gay clergy”
*Blogger: “Results of church votes on the ELCA”
*Blogger: “Reflects on the South Carolina Synod Assembly”
*The Chronicle (Wash.): “Rochester Lutherans join wave of defections”
May 2010
*Barron News-Shield (Wis.): “Dallas Lutheran Church could drop affiliation with ELCA”
*Hickory Record (N.C.): “New Jersualem Lutheran Church votes to leave ELCA”
*First Things: “Lutherans in search of a church”
*Brainerd Dispatch (Minn.): “Church’s first vote goes against ELCA”
*Savannah Morning News (Ga.): “New Lutheran group grows in Effingham”
*Lutheran CORE: May newsletter
*Dubuque Telegraph Herald (Iowa): “There’s a new church in town”
*KELO-TV: “Pastor Erma Wolf and others to discuss ELCA gay clergy policy”
*Sioux Falls Argus Leader: “Lutherans meeting to discuss ELCA decisions”
*Associated Press: “Bishop censures four South Dakota churches”
*Fargo Forum (N.D.): “Minnesota church votes to exit the ELCA”
*Fargo Forum (N.D.): “Pontoppidan Lutheran Church voters want to stay in the ELCA”
*Fargo Forum (N.D.): “Rodnes Lutheran Church near Erskine, Minn., votes to leave the ELCA”