CRLC shares insights from its listening campaign
Courtesy of Leon Schwartz | Courtesy of Carla Christopher
Leon Schwartz of the Southeastern Iowa Synod and Carla Christopher of the Lower Susquehanna Synod are co-chairs of the Commission for a Renewed Lutheran Church.
When Carla Christopher, co-chair of the Commission for a Renewed Lutheran Church (CRLC), began the group’s “season of listening” across the entire ELCA, she expected to hear disagreement over the church’s core mission. Instead, what people said surprised her. “We heard, ‘We are gathered as faith communities around word and sacrament and love of neighbor. […]