The 2015 National Convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) repudiated and renounced the Doctrine of Discovery as “fundamentally opposed to the gospel of Jesus Christ and our understanding of the inherent rights that individuals and peoples have received from God.”
We must not lose sight of the fact that the church is a human institution. It’s dedicated to the service of God, but we must never forget that there are smudgy human fingerprints on everything that human beings are involved in.
The September 2016 issue of Canada Lutheran explores the steps the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada has taken on the journey of reconciliation and of the steps we still need to take.
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