Dear Church Rebecca K. Wright informative and supportive with excellent

informative and supportive with excellent case studies

Lemke explains that life has become an independent

rejecting positions of victim or bystander

The 400-million-year-old

never less than 3 to 1

Dear Church Rebecca K. Wright informative and supportive with excellentLenny Duncan is the unlikeliest of pastors. Formerly incarcerated, he is now a black preacher in the whitest denomination in the United States: the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Shifting demographics and shrinking congregations make all the headlines, but Duncan sees something else at work drawing a direct line between the church's lack of diversity and the church's lack of vitality. The problems the ELCA faces are theological, not