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ELCA NEWS SERVICE

May 2, 2002

ELCA PRESIDING BISHOP AUTHORS 'FAITHFUL YET CHANGING'
02-108-JB

     CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. Mark S. Hanson, presiding bishop of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), is the author of a new
book, "Faithful Yet Changing: The Church in Challenging Times."  The
book presents Hanson's vision for the ELCA.
     Augsburg Fortress, the Minneapolis-based publishing house of the
ELCA, published the 82-page book.
     "What I am hearing in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
is that this church wants a bishop who will articulate the mission,
rooted in word and sacrament, to which God is calling us -- and help us
imagine what the church can look like for the sake of mission," Hanson
said in the book's introduction.  "In these challenging times, we seek
together to be a church that is faithful yet changing."
     In the book Hanson articulates his vision for a witnessing,
worshiping, engaging, equipping, inviting, connecting, changing and
praying church.
     Hanson said he is receiving no compensation for the book.
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     Copies of "Faithful Yet Changing: The Church in Challenging Times"
can be ordered from Augsburg Fortress at http://www.augsburgfortress.org
on the Web or by calling the publisher at 1-800-328-4648.

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