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Satisfying spiritual hunger
One Sunday evening a month, Alex Mrakovich takes a break from the hustle and bustle of life to relax in a candlelit, music-filled space where he puts aside his worries….
Faith in Action
Dinner is served
Editor’s note: Every Christmas, many ELCA congregations share the spirit of the holiday by hosting and serving community Christmas dinners. The stories below were submitted by congregations that have long-standing…
Faith in Action
The search for baby Jesus
And the Word became flesh and lived among us … (John 1:14) When I took my church job in 2002, I was tasked with organizing the annual Christmas Eve family…
Faith in Action
Wooden toys & Christmas joy
Handcrafting trains, doll cradles, vehicles, jewelry boxes, pull toys and more is the faithful work of the Happy Joes, a carpentry ministry started by men from Mount Morris Holden Lutheran…
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I’m a Lutheran: Debra J. Bonde
Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Livonia, Mich. Founder and director of Seedlings Braille Books for Children I founded Seedlings Braille Books for Children 35 years ago because I heard that braille books…
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My take: Maasai girls and the road to Jericho
In 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech at Riverside Church in New York City. In his address, he alluded to one of the Bible’s most well-known passages, the…
Mission & Ministry
“The Lutheran Oskar Schindler”
Lovely and historic Budapest was a very different place in 1944. The German army invaded Hungary early that year, and months later the country’s fascist, anti-Semitic Arrow Cross Party took…
Faith in Action
Joy in gratitude
With half-eaten bowls of oatmeal on the table, my children jump off their chairs and run to the living room. “Music on?” my son asks, smiling. With arms lifted in…
Mission & Ministry
Spirituality and community at Holden
In May, 14 students from Texas Lutheran University (TLU) in Seguin went to Holden Village, a remote retreat, learning and worship center nestled in the Cascade Mountains near Chelan, Wash….
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Mission-driven art
“Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves, and to others, the inner vision which guides us as…
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In service to the common good
Conversing across differences is a critical yet challenging skill for young people to develop. Through interreligious programming, Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) in Tacoma, Wash., hopes to help its students practice…
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A faster path to ministry
Answering God’s call to ordained ministry sets a person on a long road that includes college, seminary and a year of internship in a congregation. This usually takes eight years….
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