Resources for each person and community of faith exploring its own bound conscience and making decisions about how to live in creative engagement with the bound consciences of others, including the ELCA churchwide assembly, for the sake of God's mission

“Church in Society: A Lutheran Perspective,” is the first social statement adopted by the ELCA and both calls congregations to be communities of moral deliberation and provides foundational perspective on the role of social statements in the life of this church.	“Talking Together as Christians about Tough Social Issues,” provides guidance and a curriculum for cultivating the sort of conversation and community life that facilitate the moral deliberation discussed in the social statement and which also honors one another’s deep, differing commitments and conscience.	Read the final versions of the four adopted Recommendations on Ministry Policy.
ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson’s concluding message.	Read a summary of actions regarding the social statement and its recommendations, prepared by the Office of Bishop Stuck, August 2009.	Response to "Lutherans in Search of a Church," by Rev. Dr. William Gafkjen, Bishop, Indiana-Kentucky Synod, ELCA; July 2010
Reflections on the ELCA Churchwide Assembly and the Bible The Rev. Dr. Timothy J. Wengert	In The Aftermath: Reflections Following the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, by Dr. David Yeago	The Bible, The Church, and Faithful Discernment, by Dr. Brian Peterson

A Life Worthy of our Calling, a sermon by Bishop Herman R. Yoos	FAQs About Recent ELCA Decisions by Peter Keyel	Welcoming in the Gentiles: A Biblical Model for Decision Making
The Bible and Our Ethics: A Discussion with Ralph W. Klein	Download a summary of resources in bulletin insert format	Books to Read
Fact Checker Re: Claims Made about the ELCA	2011 Constitutional Termination of Relationship Process