Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination in the Lutheran tradition, with congregations and synods in the United States and the Caribbean. It supports worship, theological education, faith formation, global mission, and social outreach including disaster response and advocacy.www.elca.org
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Nov 3, 2026
Gary HodgkinHOST
The sentiment is shared by a surprising number of Democratic candidates this election cycle.
Gary HodgkinHOST
Of the nine pastors, former pastors and seminarians, running for Congress as Democrats this year, six, including four, are locked in tight, widely watched races, belong to mainline Protestant denominations such as the United Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.
Gary HodgkinHOST
The candidacies have put the spotlight on the theology of primarily white mainline Protestants, a politically moderate group whose clergy skew liberal and whose members make up about 13% of the US population.
Gary HodgkinHOST
From Texas to Iowa to Canvas, mainline Protestant candidates, while careful to voice support for the separation of church and state, are giving voice to forms of public theology that could reclaim a position their tradition lost decades ago in Christian power in the United States.
Bob BiermannHOST
All apostate, dead, dying churches.
Bob BiermannHOST
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America with their lesbian pastors.
Bob BiermannHOST
Lesbian trans pastors in some cases.
Bob BiermannHOST
I mean, tell me that that is scriptural? Where? Where do you find that? You can't.
Ian KinneyGUEST
And we start having these big brain monocle top hat things and we bring them back in and then little by little, it starts to starts to eat away at creation, at Jonah, the person of Christ, the, you know, the Christ, the myth, the historical Jesus, little by little by little, all started there with just because we weren't on the same academic level as the Germans.
Ian KinneyGUEST
And then the ELCA is born.
Ian KinneyGUEST
And now we have, you know, drag queen story hour for the sermon in the ELCA churches.
Ian KinneyGUEST
We have the sparkle creed.
Ian KinneyGUEST
We have all this just, that would have made Sodom blush.
Bob BiermannHOST
Thank you, United Methodist Church.
Bob BiermannHOST
Thank you, ELCA.
Bob BiermannHOST
You know, with all your rainbow flags and gay and lesbian and trans pastors, none of which are biblical.
Bob BiermannHOST
You are an apostate church.
Melik BrownGUEST
That was one of the hugest events ever.
Paul J SchmidtHOST
The event that, for those that don't know, obviously, there's a triennial event called the ELCA National Youth Gathering.
Melik BrownGUEST
N-E-L-C-A stands for?
Paul J SchmidtHOST
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Melik BrownGUEST
They had a problem that they didn't know they had.
Melik BrownGUEST
He had already solved it.
Melik BrownGUEST
He brought that to ELCA.
Melik BrownGUEST
They liked it.
Annie FryHOST
But acknowledging those who are departed from us, I think is a very... spiritually warming thing and exercise to do because I talk about, and the reason why I'm talking about All Saints Day is because November 1st is All Saints Day.
Annie FryHOST
Now to get in the super weeds, which I'm going to take a point of privilege here as the host of the show and as a Lutheran, an LCMS Lutheran, not an ELCA Lutheran, all LCMS Lutherans feel the need to disclose that.
Annie FryHOST
I don't know that ELCA Lutherans are like not one of those Lutheran church, Missouri senators.
Annie FryHOST
Um, Martin Luther, who, if you are a Christian and non-Catholic, you probably trace yourself back to Martin Luther in some capacity.
Annie FryHOST
nailed 95 theses, 95 reasons why the Catholic Church in its current state was not scripturally sound.
Annie FryHOST
But... acknowledging those who are departed from us, I think is a very spiritually warming thing and exercise to do because, you know, I talk about, and the reason why I'm talking about All Saints Day is because November 1st is All Saints Day.
Annie FryHOST
Now to get in the super weeds, which I'm going to take a point of privilege here as the host of the show and as a Lutheran, an LCMS Lutheran, not an ELCA Lutheran, all LCMS Lutherans feel the need to disclose that.
Annie FryHOST
I don't know that ELCA Lutherans are like not one of those Lutheran church, Missouri senators.
Annie FryHOST
Um, Martin Luther, who, if you are a Christian and non-Catholic, you probably trace yourself back to Martin Luther in some capacity.
Annie FryHOST
nailed 95 theses, 95 reasons why the Catholic Church in its current state was not scripturally sound.
Annie FryHOST
But acknowledging those who are departed from us I think is a very spiritually warming thing and exercise to do because, you know, I, I talk about, and the reason why I'm talking about All Saints' Day is because November 1st is All Saints' Day.
Annie FryHOST
Now, to get in the super weeds, which I am going to take a point of privilege here as the host of this show and as a Lutheran, an LCMS Lutheran, not an ELCA Lutheran.
Annie FryHOST
All LCMS Lutherans feel the need to disclose that.
Annie FryHOST
[laughs] I don't know that ELCA Lutherans are like, "Not one of those Lutheran Church Missouri Synoders." Um, Martin Luther, who if you are a Christian and non-Catholic, you probably trace yourself back to Martin Luther in some capacity.
Annie FryHOST
nailed 95 theses, 95-
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Hierald OsortoGUEST
kicking and screaming.
Hierald OsortoGUEST
Um, so I, I think the idea of becoming a pastor and becoming an ordained minister of word and sacrament in the ELCA or the evangelical Lutheran church in America was one that I considered, but really did not want to pursue.
Hierald OsortoGUEST
Um, I thought, let me do everything that I could possibly do to not do this and to not pursue ministry in this form.
Hierald OsortoGUEST
And so I felt really good that I was doing work with faith-based communities, nonprofits that were faith-based.
Bob BiermannHOST
Cheapen the gospel.
Bob BiermannHOST
You're going the same direction as the Episcopal Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the United Church of Christ, the Presbyterian Church USA, and on and on it goes.
Bob BiermannHOST
You're following down the same footsteps.
Bob BiermannHOST
You've abandoned the faith once delivered, and now you're beginning to proclaim another gospel, which is not the gospel.
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