Amy Beitelschees-Albers comes from a family whose parents lived their faith more than they talked about it. “We were good Lutherans,” said the pastor of Zion Lutheran Church, North Manchester,…
As the church approaches All Saints Day, the ELCA mourns another storied member of our family joining the communion of saints. Cheryl Stewart Pero, a theologian, writer, advocate and educator,…
In the small town of Mattawa, Wash., members of Grace Lutheran Church and Iglesias de Dios Vivo (Church of the Living God), a Pentecostal Latino congregation, gathered on Sept. 14…
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