* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.
Be rooted in Christ!
Ironic that this letter was written on the Feast of St. Barnabas the Apostle, whose name literally means “son of encouragement”.
Not much encouragement in that epistle!
Oh good God.
But not unexpected from ELCA, or any mainstream church.
I fear, though, to check on Missouri Synod. Everywhere I turn is caving, caving, caving....and white-shaming.
In case you haven’t seen this yet...
https://babylonbee.com/news/elca-dropping-problematic-evangelic-lutheran-church-and-america-from-denomination-name