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Embrace new life
There’s a reason why we in the Northern Hemisphere celebrate Easter during spring. It’s a time when the sun shines more, temperatures grow warmer, ice thaws, animals come out of…
Mission & Ministry
Hope at Easter
Born in Jerusalem, Rodny Saïd felt called to serve the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL). “I felt my call was specifically to one geographical point…
Faith in Action
Cloaks and palms
From Spirit in the Hills Lutheran Church in Spicewood, Texas, to First Lutheran Church of San Diego, some ELCA congregations are adding clothing donations to their Palm Sunday processionals, linking…
Faith in Action
When faith is a verb
“I was—I am—an alcoholic,” said Melody Gulbrantson. “On my own, I entered an AA recovery program. My sister cared for my children, but my son gave her trouble. I took…
Faith in Action
All land is holy
Our family lives in the Holy Land, where political tensions dominate the news. This is a place where the land reigns supreme in debates over who belongs and who doesn’t….
Mission & Ministry
I heard it on the radio
It can be difficult to disseminate information throughout Nepal, which is monetarily poor, geographically diverse, educationally unsound yet multilingual. To distribute life lessons there, one innovative social organization is using…
Faith in Action
God’s love is with us — amid great challenges
Editor’s note: Welcome to a special edition of our new web column “Faith & family: Growing together,” which complements our “Faith & family” department. Focal verse Be still before the…
Mission & Ministry
“Strength and resilience”
Erin Magoon, a junior at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn., said that before May 2019, she knew little about the history of women’s ordination in the Lutheran church. Determined to…
Mission & Ministry
Healing love
Raised in San Antonio as a Roman Catholic, Enedina Casarez Vasquez was 9 years old when an incident during mass changed her life. She was waiting for her friend Tony…
Faith in Action
Lost and found
Editor’s note: Welcome to our new web column, “Faith & family: Growing together,” which complements our “Faith & family” department. Join Kimberly Knowle-Zeller each month as she explores different stages…
Faith in Action
Let’s do laundry
Abby Vesga understands what it’s like to not know where you will lay your head at night, when your next meal will be or how you will clean your clothes. …
Mission & Ministry
The great and holy leveling field
“There but for the grace of God go I.” I’ve heard this uttered and may have even said it myself a time or two. It’s usually said in response to…
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