When Betsy Buschkemper arrived at the Building a Caring Community (BCC) center in Moshi, Tanzania, 5-year-old Brian took her hand and tugged her inside to see his toys. This lively,…
Bold Women’s Day, observed on the fourth Sunday in February by Women of the ELCA, celebrates Lutheran women who are boldly living their faith in Jesus Christ. Members of All…
Natalia Parker, 36, was 7 days old when she was adopted. Since her youth, she has known she wanted to adopt children. After Parker and her husband, Ron, had two…
Lutheran Campus Ministry programs are uniquely positioned to create and hold space for hard, important conversations like confronting racism, said Kate Reuer Welton, campus pastor at the University of Minnesota–Twin…
College students from Chicago’s South Loop are meeting their neighbors in a most unusual way: each Sunday night, they walk a shopping cart through the streets and hand out sandwiches…
As a church, we need to avoid generalizing about millennials.
This week Brian Beckstrom, campus pastor at Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa, reflects on the many challenges facing first-year students and how faith plays a role.
Sozi is a creative girl whose head is swarming with hundreds of ideas. Alas, when she decides to begin a work of art, her wandering mind refuses to stay focused….
One of our youth became sick during closing worship of the Youth Gathering (page 16). Waiting outside the medical area, two women who work at the Ford Center asked if…
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…
Whether it be caroling with the church choir, baking Christmas cookies for neighbors or making a day of selecting the perfect blue spruce to chop down and decorate, Christmas traditions…
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…
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