US Lutherans launch initiative joining Indigenous-led Truth and Healing Movement
RNS The head of the country’s largest Lutheran denomination announced on Wednesday the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is launching its own Truth and Healing Movement to help its three million members better understand the “colonising impacts” the church has had on Indigenous people, both past and present. “We must be in better, right, and healthy relationships […]
Reckoning with their history, Lutherans issue declaration to Indigenous peoples
Columbus, Ohio, US RNS There was a time when Lutherans were recognised as the advocates for Indigenous peoples, according to Vance Blackfox, director for Indigenous ministries and tribal relations for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the United States’ largest Lutheran denomination. In the 1960s and 1970s, Lutherans vocally supported the American Indian Movement, said […]