Lutheran

The general secretary said she wanted to convey that the “worldwide Lutheran communion is really grateful for ELCA’s continuous support and for the fact that ELCA hasn’t forgotten its sisters and brothers worldwide.”

Doug Mastriano, the Pennsylvania state senator now running for governor on the Republican ticket, has a habit of energetically of giving voice to Christian nationalism. Mastriano has been leaning into the ideology for years, utilizing it as part of a larger pattern of distancing himself from criticism.

Watching backstage as more than 800 Lutherans sang hymns on the floor of the Greater Columbus Convention Center, Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton mused, “We haven’t been singing like this for a long time together."