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Lectionary blog: Messing up God’s good thing
So, what can we do now to become a part of the solution?
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#Kellyonmymind
Editor’s note: At presstime, Kelly Gissendaner’s fate was still undetermined. In 1998 she received the death penalty for persuading her boyfriend to murder her husband. If executed, Gissendaner would become…
Mission & Ministry
Women and the Reformation: Then & Now
How did — and does — the Reformation affect the lives of women? If this relationship was documented on Facebook, the status might be “it’s complicated.” The Old Testament tells…
Faith in Action
Furry friend brings laughter, cheer to seniors
When I first heard the idea of dogs in nursing homes, I thought, ‘No way,’” said Ted Goins, who was a nursing home administrator before becoming president and CEO of…
Faith in Action
Halloween: Trick or treat?
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…
Mission & Ministry
Holden community in exile, yet connected
When Washington state’s Wolverine fire threatened the only road to Holden Village, staff of the Lutheran retreat center was evacuated to the ferry and down Lake Chelan. They became the…
Faith in Action
Through a glass darkly
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I…
Faith in Action
The art of tradition
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…
Faith in Action
5 things that happen when you get a new pastor
Pastors and congregations live in transition. Congregants come and congregants go. Pastors arrive and pastors leave. In some contexts this is more common than in others, and it’s worth noting that there is…
Mission & Ministry
Witness
You have to be fast on your feet in airports these days. There is a quick shuffle in loading up those gray bins on the security conveyer belt. Passengers yank…
Lectionary Blog
Lectionary blog: ‘Get behind me Satan’
Our mission is clear but feels like “Mission Impossible.”
Faith in Action
A night out in the cold
Sleeping on the hard ground was uncomfortable and their feet were cold, but youth from Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Boonsboro, Md., are wasting no time in signing up again…
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