Answer: Faith, grace and a conversation on the future of ecumenism We married on a California beach on Valentine’s Day 1999. Norm Braatz, our Lutheran officiant, likes to joke that he talked with Tim’s bishop a week before our wedding. “I didn’t know that Tim was getting married. Who is he marrying?” the bishop asked.
The response was: “But we don’t have shared communion with them.” So Braatz quipped, “Well, you do now.” The rest of this article is only available to subscribers. |
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December 2008 issue
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Unity has been a goal of Christians from the time the first followers began to evangelize. The New Testament shows that even the apostles disagreed on a range of issues. Despite all our famous disagreements, however, Christians still hold unity and fellowship as key goals of the movement begun by Jesus of Nazareth.
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