Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:09:10 -0500 en-us © 2026 Learn and Discern yes de74592c-1b03-589a-bbe8-bef5d129ed31 Jayne Shimko episodic false Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Jayne Shimko ELCA Social Teaching on Sexuality, Then and Now This episode offers a brief history of ELCA social teaching and its influence on ministry policy concerning sexuality, marriage, and same-gender relationships. Your host, Mitch McCartney, visits with Dr. Roger Willer, the recently retired Director of Theological Ethics for the ELCA churchwide organization, about how the ELCA got to where it is now in its social teaching on these topics. Roger and Mitch also discuss the current "reconsideration" process for the social statement, Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust. Listeners are also pointed to the current study Conscience and Conversation: A Study During the Reconsideration of the Social Statement Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust.

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