We have to learn how to tell our story in new ways, for a new culture, a new society, a new world. | more »
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I am grateful for all the authors who have enriched the lives of children, whose descriptions of monsters and giants have prepared them for life. | more »
And he left us here. We were all, in one sense, left behind. We were left but we were not abandoned.
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“Aha!” moments. We've all had them. They are times of revelation, of transformation. Something or someone touched our lives and we were never the same again. | more »
I’m ever so tempted to do things for my son, if nothing else but to make up for all the times I make mistakes. | more »
It is in unity with the holy, the divine, the spiritual, that we find wholeness within ourselves and unity with each other. | more »
Lenin’s minions killed more Christians in a slow week than the last of the great Roman persecutors, Diocletian, did in years. | more »
Thanks to my grandma I know my dad; she gave me my name and the father I never had. | more »
Those assembled saw, “Why” -- a mission drama and had a Birth Day Party and committed themselves “in the Unity of the Spirit” to “One Church Made New.” | more »
I was a little apprehensive as to what was in store for Holy Week in South Africa. I was unsure what Holy Week meant for me in Mabopane. | more »
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Soon to retire, Elizabeth Platz in 1965 became the first woman to be ordained in the Lutheran church. | more »
Seeds
Here are five ways members can participate in and extend the digital media of their congregations. | more »
Through ELCA World Hunger, members of this church can make a difference, ensuring that the most basic of human needs are met. | more »
Seeds
Here are a series of questions that can help a pastor or other worker in the church determine whether a person or family is facing a situational crisis. | more »
Sarah Rossing is one of 19 Fund for Leaders scholarship recipients, thanks to the generosity of John and Mary Satter.
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