I had a bad feeling it was coming. I’ve watched beautiful fields of sweet corn stand unharvested in Southwestern Minnesota. It’s a story from the prairie that isn’t often told….
A pastor’s offer of welcoming accommodation is rejected.
Young Lutherans are celebrating their roots, continuing the Reformation.
How can we as a church change our white, middle-class profile?
Pope Francis realizes economics and ecology must coexist.
We can respond to today’s diaspora with respect for diverse faiths.
Hold the post-worship pastries and put on your walking shoes.
Shaina Lidd, a Jewish American, and Mathilda Nassar, a Lutheran from the occupied West Bank, have a friendship that might seem unlikely to some. When they met and Nassar said…
When the toddler daughter of a friend was just learning to talk, she spent Halloween shouting, “Trick treat! Trick treat!” She was way ahead of her time, that youngster, for…
A stool is placed next to the lectern and an old-fashioned radio is set on top. A man wearing headphones pretends to turn on the radio and then speaks into…
Daryl Hogbin admits his desk job is sedentary, he tends to be an introvert, and his fallback position on daunting tasks is that they are probably insurmountable. So it surely…
“We have the means to assist people … all we need is the will.”
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