joint advocacy and action for justice and peace. Ministries of education, formation and leadership develop- ment will help integrate these areas.
‘Jesus’ wife’ fragment Karen King, a professor at Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass., revealed a scrap of papyrus Sept. 18 that purports to refer to Jesus’ wife. King said the fourth-century frag- ment, which contains 33 words and incomplete sentences, presents a dialogue between Jesus and his dis- ciples, and could cause Christians to rethink traditions. King said the fragment reads: “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife ...,’ ” and “she will be able to be my disciple.” King allows that the fragment doesn’t prove that Jesus was married, only that early Chris- tians discussed it and Jesus may have been speaking figuratively.
Isaac response continues The ELCA continues to respond and assess damages after Hurricane Isaac made landfall Aug. 29, wreak- ing havoc in Louisiana and Missis- sippi and triggering flash floods in Selma, Ala. The ELCA is helping in Louisiana through Lutheran Social Services of the South and the Texas- Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod. Camp Victor in Mississippi, which had closed in July after assisting with Hurricane Katrina relief, reopened to help Lutheran Social Services of Ten- nessee and the Southeastern Synod house volunteers. Lutheran Minis- tries of Alabama is coordinating vol- unteers to help with cleanup. Send gifts (designated “Hurricane Isaac”) to ELCA Disaster Response, 39330 Treasury Center, Chicago, IL 60694- 9300; visit
www.elca.org/disaster or call 800-638-3522. To volunteer visit
www.ldr.org/volunteer.
Sikhs push for protections U.S. Sikhs took heart in a widely
Biking bishop James E. Hazelwood (center), bishop of the New England Synod, arrives at his
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Sept. 29 installation service at Trinity Lutheran Church, Worcester, Mass., on his motorcycle. He was escorted from St. Andrew Lutheran Church, Charlestown, R.I., where he served for 20 years, by several of the Lutheran Lizards. The Lizards, motorcycle enthusiasts from Rhode Island, began monthly rides together nearly 15 years ago. Hazelwood told the Worcester Telegram & Gazette: “I guess you can say that I’m probably not going to be your typical bishop.”
publicized Senate hearing on hate crimes and a pledge by the Justice Department to consider tracking such crimes directed at their commu- nity. The September hearing featured Harpreet Singh Saini, 18, whose mother was one of six Sikh worship- ers killed Aug. 5 when a gunman opened fire in their Wisconsin tem- ple. “We cannot solve a problem we refuse to recognize,” he told a sub- committee of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sikhism, a monotheistic faith founded in South Asia, is the world’s fifth largest religion with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 adher- ents in the U.S.
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I so strongly believe that the great religions of the world are stronger than any insults. They have with- stood offense for centuries. Refrain- ing from violence, then, is not a sign of weakness in one’s faith; it is abso- lutely the opposite, a sign that one’s faith is unshakable.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speaking about an anti-Muslim video that sparked anti- American riots across the Middle East.
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