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Executive Assistant to the Secretary of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

About Randall R Lee

Executive Assistant to the Secretary of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Reflecting on Let’s Talk

June 2, 2016 by Randall R Lee

Five years ago, in the parking lot at Carthage College following the Synod Assembly, Pastor Tom Knutson pursued me and laid out a vision of a theological journal for the Metro Chicago Synod.  It was time, he said, for this church to engage seriously the issues that were confronting us as a church, not simply […]

Filed Under: Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification

A View From Augsburg

June 2, 2016 by Randall R Lee

At first, rain threatened to spoil Reformation Day 1999, but by 9:00 a.m. the sun had dispelled the clouds and an unusually warm day enveloped the historic city of Augsburg, Germany, which would witness yet one more momentous event before sunset.  Bells pealed from churches throughout the city announcing an event of great joy. Those […]

Filed Under: Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification

Recapturing the Importance of Sunday

May 26, 2016 by Randall R Lee

In considering The Use of the Means of Grace: A Proposed Statement on the Practice of Word and Sacrament, the voting members of the 1997 Churchwide Assembly will do nothing less than consider the very essence of what it means to be the Church of Jesus Christ. [This issue of Let’s Talk was put together […]

Filed Under: Reflecting Faith in Worship: The Use of the Means of Grace

20.1 Lent 2015

The Catechumenate

19.4: Advent 2014

Communion and Community

19.3: Ordinary Time 2014

Green coffee beans (top left), Nicaraguan red beans (top right), corn (bottom left) and millet, vital Nicaraguan crops, held in women farmers’ hands

Food and Justice

19.2: Pentecost 2014

Latvian Wheat by Dace Kiršpile

Growing Leaders

19.1: Epiphany 2014

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Religion and the Arts

1996 – 2013

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