A Zoom book discussion of, Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US, by Lenny Duncan, will be held on Monday, January 25, at 7:00 pm. Lenny Duncan is the unlikeliest of pastors. Formerly incarcerated, he is now a black preacher in the whitest denomination in the United States: the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Shifting demographics and shrinking congregations make all the headlines, but Duncan sees something else at work – drawing a direct line between the church’s lack of diversity and the church’s lack of vitality. The problems the ELCA faces are theological, not sociological. But so are the answers. Duncan gives a blueprint for the way forward and urges us to follow in the revolutionary path of Jesus.A Zoom book discussion of, Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US, by Lenny Duncan, will be held on Monday, January 25, at 7:00 pm. Lenny Duncan is the unlikeliest of pastors. Formerly incarcerated, he is now a black preacher in the whitest denomination in the United States: the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Shifting demographics and shrinking congregations make all the headlines, but Duncan sees something else at work – drawing a direct line between the church’s lack of diversity and the church’s lack of vitality. The problems the ELCA faces are theological, not sociological. But so are the answers. Duncan gives a blueprint for the way forward and urges us to follow in the revolutionary path of Jesus.
