Note to Current Members! The Roster has been reconstructed. You can now update your record online! Click on Roster, find your name, enter your password (use "zzz" if you haven't yet changed it), and update your record.
If you do not have a password, enter this temporary password, "zzz", so you can update your file including the password to something unique to you. If you have a password and email address, but have forgotten the password, go to the logon page, enter your email address in the Get Password section, and your password will be sent to you. Otherwise, if you need more help, go the the contact form and send us a message. Once you are able to update your record then be sure to change your password to something you can remember.
If you are a Network Member, but are not listed on the Roster, please go to the "Join" page and enter your contact information.
We especially want to make sure EVERYONE has added an email address to their record.
Please Help Us by regularly updating your record here if you move or change email addresses.
Affirmations
Below are three "Affirmations" of those who have publicly placed themselves on The Network Roster.
- We affirm the authority of God's Word for our faith and life. We acknowledge that our church has, on the basis of scriptural interpretation, condemned all sexual activity outside of heterosexual marriage. However, we believe recent and respected scholarship requires other interpretations of certain biblical passages, particularly as they apply to committed and faithful same-gender relationships.
- We believe it is time for ELCA clergy, AIMS and church members to challenge the policies and practices which continue to bring so much pain to the gay and lesbian members of our church and their families, and deprives the church of gifted professionals.
- We further affirm the vision of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in which the Gospel of God's grace in Christ is central. It is that Gospel which empowers us to move beyond estrangement to mutual trust, consolation, and cooperation in the life and ministry of the church. We are deeply concerned when the only choice given to our gay and lesbian pastors, AIMS, diaconal ministers, deaconesses and seminarians is to be silent or to leave the church. The continued expulsion of gay and lesbian professionals who are in stable, committed relationships deprives the church of positive role models for its gay and lesbian members, drives them out of the church and leaves them bereft of sacraments, pastoral care and Christian community.