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ELCA NEWS SERVICE

April 15, 2002

ASSOCIATED CHURCH PRESS HONORS LUTHERAN JOURNALISTS
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     TALLADEGA, Ala. (ELCA) -- Several members of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) took awards home from the Associated
Church Press (ACP) Convention held April 7-10 here at the Shocco Springs
Baptist Conference Center.  The ACP presented awards in 43 categories of
religious journalism.
     The Lutheran, the magazine of the ELCA, received five ACP awards.
It accepted two first-place honors for its November 2001 issue -- one
for in-depth coverage of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 and the other
for "A City Not Forsaken," a news story written by the Rev. David L.
Miller, editor.
     The magazine took second place for reader response in section
editor Julie B. Sevig's article "Here's the game plan: Readers respond
to committee survey."  The Lutheran was given two third-place awards --
one for its "Currents" department and the other for biblical
interpretation in "Fed at Emmaus, Our Hearts Burn Within Us" by the Rev.
Ruben F. Duran, which was the theme article for its April 2001 issue.
     Lutheran Woman Today, the magazine of Women of the ELCA, earned
four ACP awards.  It took first place in "most personally useful
article" for Beth Zeilinger's "Media Blitz: Keeping an Eye on What Our
Children See," published in the November 2001 issue.
     The magazine was given two second-place honors -- one for "best
publication redesign" and another for the graphics in its November 2001
issue.  Lutheran Woman Today was given third place in the Bible study
category for the Rev. James A. Nestingen's "Teach Us to Pray: A Study of
the Lord's Prayer."
     The ELCA News Service, Department for Communication, received two
ACP awards -- first place for its coverage of the 2001 ELCA Churchwide
Assembly and third place in the overall "news service" category.
     "Seeds for the Parish," the ELCA's resource paper, won second
place in the ACP's overall "newsletter" category.  It is published by
the ELCA Department for Communication.
     "Southern Bulletin," the newsletter of Lutheran Theological
Southern Seminary, Columbia, S.C., received third place in the overall
"newsletter" category.
     "Metro Lutheran," an independent newspaper serving Lutherans in
the vicinity of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., won the ACP's third-
place award for its editorials.
     The ACP is an 86-year-old professional association of 175
religious publications and news services, representing a combined
circulation of more than 28 million.
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     The Associated Church Press maintains a complete list of award
recipients at http://www.theacp.org/ on the Web.

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