Gospel according to ELCA Lutheranism

"ELCA Council Assumes Responsibility to Address Racism, Sexism" (ELCA News Service, april 19, 2007):

CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) assigned responsibility for its ongoing antiracism and antisexism education and training to its Board Development Committee. In November the council voted to begin planning "for its continuous education, reflection and training on the issue of sexism, just as the Church Council has committed itself to continuous education, reflection and training on the issue of racism."

. . . The council asked the Board Development Committee to coordinate planning for the council's retreat in July 2008 on the topic of "scandalous realities," which was a reference to a commitment related to the strategic directions of the ELCA churchwide organization: "confront the scandalous realities of racial, ethnic, cultural, religious, age, gender, familial, sexual, physical, personal and class barriers that often manifest themselves in exclusion, poverty, hunger and violence."