The treatment of a black youth for a broken tail light, a black friend’s struggles, and her large congregation’s low turnout for the ELCA’s second webcast on racism leaves Michelle DeRusha, an ELCA member and blogger for the Huffington Post, writing that she’s not “cool” with her “96 percent white church.” To read her blog, click here.
I’m a Lutheran: David Rutlen
St. James Lutheran Church, Portland, Ore. Professor emeritus of medicine and retired head of General Cardiology, Oregon Health and Science University; marathon runner I’m named after my grandfather, David Ruotsalainen,…