David Rebey knows all too well the challenges people face after being released from incarceration. As pastor of Breaking the Chains Church—a new-start congregation inside Felmers O. Chaney Correctional Center…
In today’s world, we can easily feel overwhelmed and unheard as social media, text messages and 24-hour news inundate us daily. Even church can often feel like a place of…
As the daughter of an ELCA pastor, Eleanor Jerbi has spent a lot of time in churches. And as a neurodivergent person—Jerbi has dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia and attention deficit hyperactivity…
For nearly a century, St. Philip Evangelical Lutheran Church has been an integral part of the lives of many African Americans in St. Louis. Situated in a historically Black neighborhood…
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