4/5/10

Leaving the evangelical world renders so many of the discussions and angst of websites like ‘an evangelical dialogue on evolution’ or ‘Biologos Foundation as irrelevant.

comment on Evan Evol blog –

Jordan said … am thinking about joining the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (=ELCA in the US). Does anyone here have any experience with the ELCA or ELCIC concerning their tolerance of evolutionary creationists?

We left the evangelical world (for reasons discussed in this thread) and now attend St Andrew Lutheran in Vancouver, WA (ELCA).  Evolution and all of the attendant issues and questions seems to be a discussion that happened a long time ago, for this doesn’t even seem to be a big deal here. It’s very refreshing.  I’ve taken a few adult classes and in the ELCA material it’s also reflected, so it must not be just this one church.

One thing though is that it was a paradigm shift in a lot of other ways, as in women ministers, 13 minute sermons, more liturgy.  For whatever reason we were ready for these changes and have been greatly enjoying them.  But if you’ve been in other Lutheran churches this won’t be a stretch.