Churches Beyond Borders is an ecumenical grouping of Anglicans and Lutherans in North America. It includes
The Episcopal Church
The Episcopal Church, based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere, is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. It is a mainline Protestant denomination and is divided into nine Ecclesiastical provinces and dioces ...
(domestic dioceses and provinces), the
Anglican Church of Canada
The Anglican Church of Canada (ACC or ACoC) is the Ecclesiastical province#Anglican Communion, province of the Anglican Communion in Canada. The official French-language name is ''l'Église anglicane du Canada''. In 2017, the Anglican Church co ...
, the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant Lutheran church headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The ELCA was officially formed on January 1, 1988, by the merging of three Lutheran church bodies. , it has approxim ...
(outside of the Bahamas), and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC; french: Église évangélique luthérienne au Canada) is Canada's largest Lutheran denomination, with 95,000 baptized members in 519 congregations, with the second largest, the Lutheran Church–C ...
. Through the heads of communion in each member church, the group issues regular statements on the
Doctrine of Discovery
The discovery doctrine, or doctrine of discovery, is a disputed interpretation of international law during the Age of Discovery, introduced into United States municipal law by the US Supreme Court Justice John Marshall in ''Johnson v. M'Intosh' ...
, climate change, racial reconciliation, gender justice, and other matters. It builds on the Canadian 2001
Waterloo Declaration The Waterloo Declaration or Called to Full Communion is an accord reached in 2001 by the Anglican Church of Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada. It was reached in 2001 at the Anglican Church's General Synod which was held at the ...
and the 1999-2000 American document
Called to Common Mission
Called to Common Mission (CCM) is an agreement between The Episcopal Church (ECUSA) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in the United States, establishing full communion between them. It was ratified by the ELCA in 1999, the ECU ...
as an expression of full communion among Anglicans and Lutherans in North America.
See also
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Anglican Communion and ecumenism
Anglican interest in ecumenical dialogue can be traced back to the time of the Reformation and dialogues with both Orthodox and Lutheran churches in the sixteenth century. In the nineteenth century, with the rise of the Oxford Movement, there ...
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Porvoo Communion
The Porvoo Communion is a communion of 15 predominantly northern European Anglican and Evangelical Lutheran churches, with a couple of far-southwestern European (in the Iberian Peninsula) church bodies of the same denomination. It was establishe ...
External links
Memorandum of Mutual Recognition of Relations of Full Communion between the Churches of Called to Common Mission (The Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) and the Churches of Called to Full Communion: The Waterloo Declaration (The Anglican Church of Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada)(2018)
ELCA, Episcopalian, Anglican, ELCIC leaders commend call to discipleship(June 7, 2019)
Churches Beyond Borders—Advent Call to Address Racism and White Supremacy(November 30, 2020)
Churches Beyond Borders issue statement for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination(March 17, 2021)
Churches Beyond Borders calls for education, solidarity around Doctrine of Discovery(September 23, 2021)
Churches Beyond Borders: Joint Devotions 2021(November 3, 2021)
Protestant ecumenism
Episcopal Church (United States)
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Anglican ecumenism
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