Treaties developed through exploitation and violence were broken. The church's home page adds: We acknowledge that Edina Community Lutheran Church is located on the traditional, ancestral and contemporary lands of the Dakhóta Oyáte*, the Dakota nation. See our JUSTICE PAGE for more information. We are currently on a long term journey to become an anti-racist congregation. We are an open, energetic and inclusive congregation with an historical emphasis on social justice. Founded in 1948, Edina Community Lutheran Church (ECLC) is a growing, medium-sized congregation located in Edina, just across the Minneapolis line. We are delighted that people from all over the Twin Cities metro area are a part of our congregation. ECLC is a member congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and has been a Reconciling in Christ (LGBTQIA+ inclusive) congregation since 1985. We are called to extend that welcome further by making room for those who are not yet here. ECLC has long been sought out for our meaningful worship, inclusive welcome and challenging opportunities for learning and mission - a leader in shaping conversations of justice. We welcome all people without exception, and reach out to our community with serving hands and voices raised for justice. The church's website notes the following (links and bold text included): Edina Community Lutheran Church (ECLC) is a progressive Lutheran congregation that has been striving for over 70 years to live out Jesus’ radical message of love and to make a difference in our world. I believe in the calling to each of us that love is love is love, so beloved, let us love. I believe in the church of everyday saints, as numerous, creative, and resilient as patches on the AIDS quilt, whose feet are grounded in mud and whose eyes gaze at the stars in Wonder. I believe in the rainbow spirit, who shatters our image of one white light and refracts it into a rainbow of gorgeous diversity. I believe in Jesus Christ, their child, who wore a fabulous tunic and had two dads and saw everyone as a sibling child of God. What are the details?Īnna Helgen, one of the pastors at Edina Community Lutheran Church, asked those in the sanctuary to "confess our faith today in the words of The Sparkle Creed," which is a radical variation of "The Apostles' Creed." Here's what was recited: I believe in the non-binary God whose pronouns are plural. A Minneapolis church's livestream Sunday caught the moment when one of its pastors led the congregation in the recitation of "The Sparkle Creed," which proclaims belief in the "non-binary God whose pronouns are plural" and to Jesus Christ who "had two dads," among other things.
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