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Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity - part 8: Re-imagining Redemption

While in the Tegel Prison in Berlin awaiting trial for participating in a plot to kill Hitler, Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer began to contemplate a future for Christianity and the church in a world with science, secularism, and world wars. His idea were formulated in different letters to his pastor friend Eberhard Bethge and compiled with all his prison writings in Letters from Prison.

Part eight - After deconstructing the popular idea of "redemption"in Christianity, Bonhoeffer begins to re-imagine what the word might mean in a world where people no longer believe in a literal hell with an eternal punishment that they need to be rescued from.

By Pastor Lars Hammar

Human Sexuality Study part 4 - Specifics of the 2009 ELCA social statement

A conversation and study of how ELCA Lutherans understand human sexuality, both in the Bible, and in the 2009 Social Statements on Human Sexuality. Part four, we take a look at some of the specific conclusions of the statement regarding such things as marriage, cohabitation, promiscuity, and same-sex relationships.

To download and read the official statement click here.

Human Sexuality Study part 2 - the varied views in the New Testament

A conversation and study of how ELCA Lutherans understand human sexuality, both in the Bible, and in the 2009 Social Statements on Human Sexuality. Part two of four classes, this session focuses on some of the teachings of the new testament, showing the turn from Jesus and Paul to the harsh legalism of the Deutero-Pauline Epistles (ones with Paul's name but not written by Paul) and the Pastoral Epistles.

To download and read the official statement click here

Abortion - Lutheran Perspective

A look at the social statement of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on abortion, approved at the 1991 church-wide assembly. A review of the statement itself, and conversation around thoughts and reactions.

Make sure to download the statements. They're too big to put on powerpoints.

Abortion Social Statement - download here: https://www.elca.org/Faith/Faith-and-Society/Social-Statements/Abortion

Economic Life - Lutheran Perspective

A look at the social statement on the Economic Life of the ELCA, and some conversation around how social statements are made, why, and what purpose they serve. In-Person and online. Make sure to download the statements to read before and during the class. They're too big to put on powerpoints.

Economic Life Social Statement - download here: https://www.elca.org/Faith/Faith-and-Society/Social-Statements/Economic-Life

S-Course - Part 3: Sin, Satan, and Salvation

Join us for part three of a discussion on what people believe today verses what they believed in biblical times. Indeed people’s beliefs about a satan, sin, eschatology, resurrection and salvation have evolved over time.

This course is a brief introduction of this evolution from the earliest parts of the Hebrew Scriptures, to the later Hebrew Scriptures. From after the Babylonian exile, to what Jesus said, to what rest of the New Testament says, to what we believe today. Then we will look at what might be an appropriate “S” Theology moving forward in the 21st century. The “S” Course might surprise you and even make you rethink what you yourself believe about the five S’s

The S Course (2)- What The Bible Says About Satan, Sin, ESchatology, ReSurrection, and Salvation

Join us for part two of a discussion on what people believe today verses what they believed in biblical times. Indeed people’s beliefs about a satan, sin, eschatology, resurrection and salvation have evolved over time.

This course is a brief introduction of this evolution from the earliest parts of the Hebrew Scriptures, to the later Hebrew Scriptures. From after the Babylonian exile, to what Jesus said, to what rest of the New Testament says, to what we believe today. Then we will look at what might be an appropriate “S” Theology moving forward in the 21st century. The “S” Course might surprise you and even make you rethink what you yourself believe about the five S’s

Taught by Pastor Stewart McDonald

The S Course - What The Bible Says About Satan, Sin, ESchatology, ReSurrection, and Salvation

Join us for a discussion on what people believe today verses what they believed in biblical times. Indeed people’s beliefs about a satan, sin, eschatology, resurrection and salvation have evolved over time.

This course is a brief introduction of this evolution from the earliest parts of the Hebrew Scriptures, to the later Hebrew Scriptures. From after the Babylonian exile, to what Jesus said, to what rest of the New Testament says, to what we believe today. Then we will look at what might be an appropriate “S” Theology moving forward in the 21st century. The “S” Course might surprise you and even make you rethink what you yourself believe about the five S’s

Taught by Pastor Stewart McDonald.