ABSTRACT
During the churchwide assembly in August 2005 someone, perhaps Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson or Churchwide Secretary Lowell Almen, said that we were called the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and that the first syllable of Evangelical is ‘A’, as in ‘say,’and that those persons and churches who claim to be evangelical, pronounce the first syllable as ‘E,’ as in ‘see.’ The person was making a joke, but implied that the ELCA is different from the more fundamentalist evangelical movement.
