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Pondering eternity, heaven and hell
It is a fundamental conviction of Christians that life as we know it is not all there is—there is more to and beyond our temporal existence. The totality of God’s…
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Lent blog series: As goes Jesus, so goes light – John 9:1-41
John 9 tells the story of Jesus healing a man “blind from birth.” No accident in life caused the blindness, no disease—he had been blind from the womb, unable to…
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I’m a Lutheran: Wendy Davidson
“I’m a Lutheran” is a monthly profile featuring ELCA members around the world. The profiles showcase ELCA members in all their diversity, connecting one another through individual faith stories as…
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Lent blog series: As goes Jesus, so goes water – John 4:5-42
I’m from the Pacific Northwest, where I now live again. I’ve rediscovered that we who live in the Pacific Northwest always, always have water within our reach. It’s all around…
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Lent blog series: As goes Jesus, so goes love
When I was a little girl, a beloved Sunday school teacher gave me a small ivory cross with the words “John 3:16” etched on one side and the entirety of…
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Losing faith • finding it
Some years ago, just before Christmas, I was sitting and enjoying conversation with a staff member one minute, then lying on the ground the next, completely unaware that my body…
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Grounded in grace
“All we had to eat was red Jell-O, flour and communion wafers,” she remembered, her eyes gazing into the past. A fundraiser for the ELCA’s global ministries, I was out…
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Beautiful dust
You make beautiful things out of the dust / You make beautiful things out of us —Gungor. My dad knew the beauty of dust. Even before he was sick and…
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Deeper understandings: To what end?
Since the dawn of time, humans have asked these age-old questions: Who are we? Why are we here? In what can we hope? The Scriptures, as well as Christian theology,…
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Why are young adults leaving the church? Maybe that’s the wrong question
There’s an interesting article going around the internet about the absence of young adults in the church. The headline reads “59 percent of millennials raised in a church have dropped…
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I’m a Lutheran: Alex Lawrence
“I’m a Lutheran” is a monthly profile featuring ELCA members around the world. The profiles showcase ELCA members in all their diversity, connecting one another through individual faith stories as…
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Crosswalk encounter
He was in his wheelchair, in the crosswalk, struggling mightily to cross the busy street before the traffic light turned to red. It was obvious he wouldn’t make it. The…
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