Lutheran leader sees orthodox Protestants aligning
Lutheran leader sees orthodox Protestants aligning
Rosa Salter Rodriguez
The Journal Gazette
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20110205/FEAT04/302059990
February 5, 2011
The Rev. Matthew Harrison has a vision of what the future of American Protestantism might look like - and it includes a potentially big realignment.
Harrison, who was pastor of Zion Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne in the 1990s and early 2000s, was elected last year to head the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, a 6,200-congregation denomination with 2.3 million baptized members. The synod is the second-largest and most traditional among the branches of Lutheranism in North America.
In an interview last month during a visit to the Synod's Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Harrison said he sees opposition to homosexuality and support of traditional marriage as leading to new ties among dissident members of diverse Protestant groups.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Rosa Salter Rodriguez
The Journal Gazette
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20110205/FEAT04/302059990
February 5, 2011
The Rev. Matthew Harrison has a vision of what the future of American Protestantism might look like - and it includes a potentially big realignment.
Harrison, who was pastor of Zion Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne in the 1990s and early 2000s, was elected last year to head the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, a 6,200-congregation denomination with 2.3 million baptized members. The synod is the second-largest and most traditional among the branches of Lutheranism in North America.
In an interview last month during a visit to the Synod's Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Harrison said he sees opposition to homosexuality and support of traditional marriage as leading to new ties among dissident members of diverse Protestant groups.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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