Lutherans Concerned/North America said it opposes resolutions that diminish the status of Lutheran CORE members to hold elected synod offices.
In a statement posted on its Web site, Lutherans Concerned said it had learned the Upper Iowa River Conference has passed such a resolution.
Lutherans Concerned cites the resolution, adopted by the conference in the Northeastern Iowa Synod, as follows:
“Strengthening the Church in Love”
By Pastor Vince Ramos
Northeastern Iowa Synod Council Member
© Pretty Good Lutherans
On January 30, the Northeastern Iowa Synod Council voted to rescind past actions regarding the following resolutions:
These resolutions were originally passed in November 2009. I introduced two separate motions last weekend to rescind the resolutions. Both motions to rescind passed.
Since Saturday, there has been speculation as to why the Synod Council did this. I would like to provide my rationale for the action.
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Valerie Elverton Dixon
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"Park 51 and America's
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Kelly Fryer
A Renewal Enterprise
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"New Ways of
Working Together"
Paul Pribbenow
President, Augsburg College
Minneapolis, Minn.
"Education and Service"
Kristin Berkey-Abbott
Poet, scholar, administrator
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"Meditation On This
Sunday's Gospel"
Pastor Keith Anderson
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Woburn, Mass.
"Almost Christian"
Martha Stortz
Augsburg College
Minneapolis, Minn.
"Slowing Down"
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Arlington, Va.
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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)