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• Ripple effect: gay issues surround Lutheran assembly 

  THE EVANGELICAL Lutheran Church in America's top legislative body had a full plate as it convened in Milwaukee in mid-August--major statements or...

  Christian Century, 09/06/03 by Jean Caffey Lyles · More from publication

• Unity journey energized 

  FOR YEARS premature rumors circulated about the demise of the Consultation on Church Union--the 40-year-old theological dialogue in which nine U.S....

  Christian Century, 01/30/02 by Jean Caffey Lyles · More from publication

• ELCA tinkers with ecumenism 

  ACTING UNILATERALLY, the Evangelical Lutheran Church America has placed in jeopardy its relationship of "full communion" with the Episcopal Church....

  Christian Century, 09/12/01 by Jean Caffey Lyles · More from publication

• Hanson chosen to lead ELCA 

  Unsurprisingly, the new bishop of the 5.1-million-member Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is a man of Scandinavian ancestry who has close...

  Christian Century, 08/29/01 by Jean Caffey Lyles · More from publication

• Decorum in Denver 

  BY SOME gracious irony, the death of Robert Runcie came while the U.S. Episcopal Church's General Convention was in session. As archbishop of...

  Christian Century, 07/19/00 by Jean Caffey Lyles · More from publication

• Dollars and signs 

  ONE FIGURE concentrates the attention of Robert Edgar, chief executive of the National Council of Churches: $650,000. That's the amount of cash the...

  Christian Century, 06/07/00 by Jean Caffey Lyles · More from publication

• Watershed in Cleveland 

  SEIZING THE BLESSINGS of a rising stock market and unexpectedly plentiful reserve funds, the United Methodist General Conference approved millions...

  Christian Century, 05/24/00 by Jean Caffey Lyles · More from publication

• Elephant at the quadrennial 

  WHEN UNITED METHODIST delegates take their seats at the church's May 2-12 General Conference in Cleveland, they'll be facing decisions on 2,500 or...

  Christian Century, 04/19/00 by Jean Caffey Lyles · More from publication

• Endings and beginnings 

  Cleveland Cleveland THE NATIONAL Council of Churches, its existence threatened by persistent deficits, inept financial management and...

  Christian Century, 12/01/99 by Jean Caffey Lyles · More from publication

• The National Council of Churches: Is there life after 50? 

  THIS MONTH the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. and representatives of its 35 member communions will journey to Cleveland, the...

  Christian Century, 11/10/99 by Jean Caffey Lyles · More from publication