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-Church of Sweden to Clergy: Stop Calling God ‘He’ or ‘The Lord’

Friday, November 24th, 2017

                            (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The Church of Sweden (Lutheran) has instructed its clergy to stop referring to God as a ‘he’ or as ‘The Lord.’ Here’s the story from the UK Telegraph: The Church of Sweden is urging its clergy to use gender-neutral language when referring to the supreme deity, refraining from using terms like […]

-Sweden: Lesbian Bishop Wants to Take Crosses Down and Make Space for Muslims

Tuesday, June 27th, 2017

                  (Image: Wikipedia) The Church of Sweden’s first lesbian Bishop wants to take crosses and Christian symbols down in a church to make space for Muslims to pray. Here’s the story from Breitbart:   The Bishop of Stockholm has proposed a church in her diocese remove all signs of the cross and put down markings showing […]

-Transgender Issue: Now a Christian School is Being Called Out by Atheists

Wednesday, May 25th, 2016

                                                            (St. John’s Lutheran School in Baraboo, Wisconsin) A couple of weeks ago President Obama demanded that all public schools in America accommodate transgender students when it comes to bathrooms and locker rooms. Now an atheist organization is also calling for a Christian school to follow through regardless of their religious beliefs.  From CharismaNews: Earlier […]

-Denmark Forces Lutheran Church to Allow Gay Marriages

Thursday, June 21st, 2012

                      (Map of Denmark: Wikipedia) From Charisma news: In a move that could foreshadow what’s ahead for America, Denmark’s Parliament on Thursday voted to approve a bill that makes same-sex marriage legal in Lutheran church ceremonies, essentially forcing the church to perform gay marriages. Until now, same-sex couples could only get short blessing ceremonies in […]

-Lutherans Are ‘Anti-Catholic’?

Monday, July 18th, 2011

Are Lutherans necessarily ‘Anti-Catholic’? No. It all started with an article in The Atlantic that claimed that GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann was ‘anti-Catholic’. It was based upon Bachmann’s past membership in Salem Lutheran Church of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod: Bachmann was a longtime member of the Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church in Stillwater, Minn., […]