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Study guide: Living out our commitment

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Lectionary blog: Stumbling toward Emmaus

Go and retreat

Lectionary blog: A going-away present for the ages

Lectionary blog: From death to life

Lectionary blog: Everyday crosses

Study guide: Alaskan village tries to preserve its culture

Study guide: Church in rural America
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Study Guide

Living out our commitment
The ELCA’s 1993 social statement “Freed in Christ: Race, Ethnicity and Culture” reminds us that when it was formed in 1988, the denomination established a goal to grow its membership to 10 percent people of color or language other than English. Now, 24 years after that social statement and 29 years after the ELCA’s formation, we have not budged the needle. Our membership is 96 percent white. Why is this so? Certainly we can do better.
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