The Concordat and Formula, if approved at the ELCA's Churchwide Assembly in Philadelphia, PA, in 1997, will establish full communion among ELCA, Episcopal and three Reformed churches. Most congregations favor the proposal, which would give Lutherans and non-Lutherans church unity.
NOT QUITE 50 years ago, representatives of 144 Anglican, Protestant and Orthodox churches from 44 countries met in Amsterdam at the edge of a devastated Europe to form the World Council of Churches. In a world ...