wfn.org | CORRECTIONS: Opposition to Lutheran-Episcopal Proposal

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In a story issued Feb. 12 by the ELCA News Service, dateline Mahtomedi,
Minn., please delete paragraph #24 (#7 from the bottom).  The paragraph
reads:

               Granquist called the historic episcopate "a failed paradigm." 
     "It has not worked for the Episcopal Church, and it won't work for
     us," he said.

Replace that paragraph with the following text:

     Granquist said an approach to ecumenism that seeks to blend ministry
systems from different denominations is "a failed paradigm."
     Advocates of the historic episcopate claim it will help Lutherans
resist the corrosive acids of modernity, said Granquist.    "It has not
worked for the Episcopal Church, and it won't work for us," he said.

Also ... please change the speaker's title in original paragraph #25 (#6
from the bottom) to Dr. James M. Kittelson.