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“Have you been fed?”
As she took the podium, Jill Rode, a pastor of St. Anthony Park Lutheran Church in St. Paul, Minn., looked out at a roomful of Asian Lutheran leaders of a…
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A gathering table built to last
A 134-year-old college and a similarly venerable nearby congregation learned through an ELCA initiative that their neighbors were thirsting for them to partner in fostering togetherness. That’s how Pacific Lutheran…
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A legacy of service
In December 2023, after 27 years of serving disaster-ravaged communities around the country, Dale and Jean Peercy retired from volunteering with Lutheran Disaster Response (LDR). Their work with LDR took…
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Holding on to God and each other
Their names were Tommy, Moses, Junior, John, William—and there were many others. Their mothers’ names are Oretha, Grace, Victoria, Marline, Nora—and there are many others. They were elementary, high school…
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This is: Ministries of Diverse Cultures and Communities
Find out more about each of the following Ministries of Diverse Cultures and Communities, their mission strategies, and related associations: Indigenous Ministries and Tribal Relations African descent (African American, Afro Caribbean,…
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Accompanying a “hidden community”
Editor’s note: Part one of this story focused on Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Roseville, Minn., which hosts a tiny-home community on its property. Like Prince of Peace, a…
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Sacred settlement
In two snowy climates where the experience of being unhoused is especially brutal, Lutheran-led initiatives offer innovative approaches to providing shelter and creating community. At Colorado State University in Fort…
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How a congregation became “cool”
In 1958, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church was erected on pastureland in Decorah, Iowa. Like most buildings from that era, it was heated with fuel oil. During the 1960s, the congregation…
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“Christ-centered theology and preaching”
On the morning of Feb. 19, 1974, a theological struggle over ecumenism and the inerrancy of the Bible drew students of Concordia, a Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) seminary in St….
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This is: advocacy
ELCA advocacy is most effective when Lutherans across the country are involved and active. The ELCA has professional policy staff who help facilitate Lutheran advocacy efforts, but members of Congress…
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This is: SUMUD
The ELCA’s primary companion church in the Holy Land is the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL). This Arabic-speaking community of faithful Lutherans is the primary…
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Belonging and belovedness
Middle Tennessee is rife with religion-derived discrimination, Dawn Bennett said. In response she became the pastor developer of the Table in Nashville, founded in December 2019. Its purpose? “To answer…
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