Current Links:

•  http://www.locksoflove.org/

•  Order Magazine Subscriptions through Immanuel!

•  Help collect items for our troops serving in Iraq and elsewhere 

•  CarePages

•  Americares

•  Prayer Shawl Ministry

•  Scouting Program

Patristics:

•  Guide to Early Church Documents

•  Orthodox Monasticism and Patristics

•  New Testament Gateway Early Church and Patristics

•  Patristics and Articles

•  Patristics

•  Guide to Early Church Documents

•  Early Church Fathers

Reformation Studies:

•  Book of Concord 

•  Project Wittenberg Project Wittenberg is home to works by and about Martin Luther and other Lutherans.

•  Reformation Ink - An Online Selection of Reformation documents

•  Readings in and on Luther 

•  Readings in the Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation 

•  Logia - A Journal of Lutheran Theology

•  Digital Versions of the Augsburg Confession, the Book of Concord, and the Disputation concerning the Divinity and Humanity of Christ

•  Lutheran Resources on the Internet

Of Interest to Families

•  Focus on your child - Practical Instruction for Parents by Evangelical Ministry, Focus on the Family

•  Plugged In - Reviews of Movies, Music, and TV shows

•  Ask Dr. Theophilus - Written for college students

•  Christian Parenting Today - published by Christianity Today

•  Faith and Family Magazine - published by the Southern Baptist Convention

•  Catholic Educator's Resource Center

•  Springhill Center Theology Library - papal and other Catholic statements on the family

•  EWTN Family Index

•  Motherhood Project

•  The Motherhood Study

•  National Center for Fathering

•  National Fatherhood Institute

Pro-Family Organizations with easily searchable sets of articles, studies and reports

•  Ethics & Public Policy Center

•  Family Research Council

•  Fatherhood Initiative

•  Heritage Foundation

•  Howard Center

•  Institute for American Values

•  Institute for Marriage and Public Policy

•  Tufts University Child & Family Webguide

Online Sexuality Resources

•  Recommendations of the ELCA Sexuality Task Force

•  Seventeen Theologians call for rejection of Task Force Recommendations

•  Critique of Sexuality Task Force Recommendations by Dr. Roy Harrisville of Solid Rock Lutherans

•  ELCA Church Council Recommendation to 2005 Churchwide Assembly regarding Task Force Recommendations (pdf format)

•  Ordination of Gay and Lesbian Persons Churchwide Assembly Action initiating ELCA Sexuality Studies

•  Journey Faithfully Together - The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Studies on Sexuality

•  "Journeying Together and Faithfully?"  by Dennis Bielfeldt in the Journal of Lutheran Ethics

•  Human Sexuality and Sexual Behavior - A Social Statement of the American Lutheran Church

•  Sex, Marriage and Family - A Social Statement of the Lutheran Church in America

•  Courage Apostolate - a Roman Catholic ministry to persons experiencing same sex attraction

•  Lutherans Concerned / North America - Independent organization advocating change in church teaching and practice regarding homosexuality

•  National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality

•  Exodus International - Ecumenical Christian ministry to persons experiencing same sex attraction

•  Solid Rock Lutherans - independent organization which supports the church sustaining its teaching in marriage and sexual ethics

•  Homosexuality and Hope - Statement of the Catholic Medical Association

•  A Word of Welcome to Gays and Lesbians - An Open Letter from the Bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

•  Blessing of Homosexual Relationship - Evangelical Lutheran Church Conference of Bishops

•  Robert Gagnon website - Author of The Bible and Homosexual Practice

•  Massachusetts Catholic Conference Bishops' Statement in Defense of Marriage (pdf format)

•  Hickory Declaration regarding the Apostolic and Catholic Faith the model of Creation, and the ELCA Sexuality Study

•  Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons

•  Resource Links provided by Mars Hill Audio

Study Materials:

•  The Use of the Means of Grace: A Statement on the Practice of Word and Sacrament (Adopted for Guidance and Practice by the Fifth Biennial Churchwide Assembly of the ELCA, August 19, 1997)

•  The Year of Our Lord 2000: A Pastoral Letter from the Presiding Bishop and Conference of Bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 

•  Welcome to the Christ: A Lutheran Introduction to the Catechumenate 

•  Who Lutherans are and what we believe and teach 

•  ELCA Library

•  Religion and the Founding of the American Republic

•  "First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life"

•  Bibles Online

•  A Guide to Christian Literature on the Internet

•  Works of Wilhelm Baier

•  FaithInkubators

•  Touchstone Journal

•  Intercollegiate Studies Institute

•  Intercollegiate Studies Institute Books

•  Source Documents for the Study of Religion in America in the 19th Century

Formal Online Theological Study

•  Fisher's Net - Lutheran

•  International Catholic University - Catholic

Ecumenical Concerns

•  Lutheran-Moravian Full Communion Agreement

•  Formula of Agreement (between the ELCA, the Reformed Church in America, the Presbyterian Church, USA, and the United Church of Christ)

•  Called to Common Mission (Lutherans and Episcopalians)

•  Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (Lutherans and Catholics)

•  The Issue of Anti-Semitism and the historic Good Friday Liturgy (A paper by Pastor Miesel in pdf format)

•  Lutheran - Roman Catholic Dialogue

•  Lutheran - United Methodist Dialogue

•  Lutheran - Orthodox Dialogue

Prayer and Devotion

•  The Cyber Hymnal (An online Hymnal with pictures, text, and melody)

•  The Daily Office (Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer from the Book of Common Prayer) 

•  The art of the Sistine Chapel and the Vatican Museum

•  Order form for The St. James Daily Devotional Guide for the Christian Year   

 Media by or about Lutherans

•  The Official Sven and Ole Homepage 

•  Lutherans Net

•  Subscribe to ELCA News and Information through e-mail

•  Luther Web Information: Internet Service Provider for Lutherans

•  Lutheran Woman Today

•  The Lutheran Magazine

•  The Young Lutheran Web Site

•  The "Lutheran Vespers" Radio Show

•  A Prairie Home Companion

Christian Life and Ministry Resources

•  Lutheran Marriage Encounter

•  Mars Hill Audio (An audio journal)

•  Lutheran Social Services of New England

•  Camp Calumet

•  Campus Ministries of the ELCA

•  Disaster Response of the ELCA

•  Colleges and Universities of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

•  Lutheran Student Movement - USA

•  Vieth Resource Center at Yale Divinity School (Great free workshops!)

•  Luther 95 (Great Links to a variety of Lutheran web sites) 

•  ELCA Churchwide Inititiative for a New Century

•  Marriage Movement  

•  The Power of We - Center for Family and Community Relationships

•  Halloween: Its Origins and Celebration - From the EWTN library

•  Christianity Today.com

•  Lutheran Men in Mission

Synodical Web Pages

•  Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

•  Link to ELCA Churchwide Assembly 

•  New England Synod of the ELCA

•  The Lutheran Link - A bi-monthly publication of the New England Synod 

Organizations

•  New England Lutheran Clergy Association

•  Society of the Holy Trinity

•  American Lutheran Publicity Bureau  

•  North American Association for the Catechumenate

•  Notre Dame Center for Pastoral Liturgy  

•  Evangelical Lutheran Confessing Fellowship 

•  Solid Rock Lutherans

•  Troop 65

•  Compass Direct - News about Christians persecuted for their faith

•  Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ

Retreat Centers 

•  St. Edmund's Retreat

•  Koinonia of Vermont 

•  Camp Calumet

•  Our Lady of Glastonbury Abbey

•  Wisdom House

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