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Lutherans announce their first women pastors, split with conservatives widens

Posted on 06/04/2025 by John Sandeman
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Two women have been announced as the first pastors to be ordained by the Lutheran Church of Australia and New Zealand (LCANZ). This follows last year’s LCANZ Convention of General Synod’the’s decision to remove of a paragraph from the church’s… Continue Reading →

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Lutherans told that preaching that only men should be pastors is now banned

Posted on 12/10/2024 by John Sandeman
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Days after the Lutheran Church of Australia and New Zealand decided to have women pastors, their Brisbane Bishop has declared that preaching the churche’s doctrine of a week ago is banned. Pastors are permitted to hold a personal belief that… Continue Reading →

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Lutherans vote to ordain women as pastors

Posted on 05/10/2024 by John Sandeman
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The Lutheran Church of Australia New Zealand General Synod (church parliament) has voted to allow women to be ordained as pastors. Technically, they have removed one clause from the church’s “Theses of Agreement” that prohibited women’s ordination. “In effect, this… Continue Reading →

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A local church builds houses for NDIS participants

Posted on 11/09/2024 by John Sandeman
NDIS Housing StJohns Lutheran

Many NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) participants find it even harder than everyone else in the middle of a housing crisis to find a place to live. Many need houses able to take a wheelchair, or a place built robustly… Continue Reading →

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Lutherans get $50m+ windfall for their college site

Posted on 26/08/2024 by John Sandeman
Australian Lutheran College, North Adelaide

“North Adelaide mega-site sells in $50m+ blockbuster deal” is how realestate.com.au pointed to their story of the Lutheran church selling their college site. This was no case of real estate hype. Virtually a whole block of North Adelaide had been… Continue Reading →

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Lutherans plan to be pro and anti-women’s ordination at the same time

Posted on 30/04/2024 by John Sandeman
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A “way forward framework” for the Lutheran Church in Australia New Zealand (LCANZ) to “operate as on”to operate as one church with two different practices of ordination” has been proposed as a response to a decades-long debate over Women’s Ordination.… Continue Reading →

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Lutheran church rebels over marriage and gender

Posted on 28/12/2023 by John Sandeman
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A member church of the Lutheran Church of Australia (LCA) has gone public with a decision to withhold payments to the denomination. The Underdale–Glandore Lutheran Church in South West Adelaide resolved to send a message to the the SA NT… Continue Reading →

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Lutheran Vatican in North Adelaide for Sale

Posted on 30/11/2023 by John Sandeman
Australian Lutheran College, North Adelaide

The Lutheran Church of Australia is selling its extensive property portfolio in North Adelaide. This sale includesincludes the historic campus of the Australian Lutheran College (ALC), adjacent student accommodation and a church administration complex. the denominations GEneral Church Board made… Continue Reading →

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Lutherans grapple with how to be pro and anti-women’s ordination at the same time

Posted on 13/11/2023 by John Sandeman
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Despite their General Synod (Church parliament) voting against Women’s Ordination five times, the Lutheran Church of Australia and New Zealand is working on a proposal that could mean they become one church with two ordination practices in 2024 to 2027.… Continue Reading →

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Adelaide won’t stay as Australia’s Lutheran ‘Vatican’

Posted on 02/08/2023 by John Sandeman
Australian Lutheran College, North Adelaide

For a hundred years, under a variety of names, the stately Australian Lutheran College campus in North Adelaide has been the place for Lutherans to go to become a minister, or to train as a teachers. But now with “distributed… Continue Reading →

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