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Faith in Action

Plan now for Earth Day Sunday

The day is an opportunity to focus our worship on God’s creation.
Avoiding sleeping through Lent
Faith in Action

Avoiding sleeping through Lent

It is human to shut our eyes and pretend that Jesus won’t have to die.
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Faith in Action

9 things that might fail today

What worked 10 years ago for congregations might not anymore.
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Faith in Action

Embracing diversity in the pews

Multicultural ELCA congregations share their successes, struggles.
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Faith in Action

When hope in the future awakens

How can the church help those looking for a better tomorrow?
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Faith in Action

Immersion programs build bridges

At Oaks Indian Mission in Oklahoma, Lutherans pondered what it means when a white person supports sports teams that use racial slurs as their mascots. Many miles away at Living…
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Mission & Ministry

What’s in a name?

When Lutheran Social Services of the South, based in Austin, Texas, changed its name to “Upbring” last spring, they joined the ranks of other long-standing Lutheran institutions around the country…
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Faith in Action

A force in Iowa

When the new Star Wars movie made its December debut, congregations, pastors and organists across the ELCA used it as an opportunity to tap into current culture. First Lutheran Church…
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Mission & Ministry

‘Our Father’ binds his/the world together

The Japanese had been the enemy. That was the general thinking in 1948 while Luther Kistler and other soldiers occupied Tokyo. So it seemed unusual for Kistler when his father…
A life laid down
Mission & Ministry

A life laid down

We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us — and we ought to lay down our lives for one another  (1 John 3:16). Francis Spufford, a…