My faith journey: “I will be there”
Voices of Faith

My faith journey: “I will be there”

The last place I would have imagined I would finally respond to the still, small voice of God calling me into ministry would be at a Pride event. For years,…

A shared sense of global Lutheran identity
Mission & Ministry

A shared sense of global Lutheran identity

Last summer, Melissa Gómez-Yepes saw the Milky Way for the first time. Gómez-Yepes is from Medellín, Colombia, where she works as an evangelism coordinator in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of…

I’m a Lutheran: Peyton Lindmark
Voices of Faith

I’m a Lutheran: Peyton Lindmark

St. Paul Lutheran Church, Davenport, Iowa Senior, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa Exercise Science major and Luther baseball second baseman My home congregation is the same church my parents grew up…

Operation: Cookie Conversations
Voices of Faith

Operation: Cookie Conversations

Sue and I approached the first house with trepidation. I had some paper and a pen in my hands, she balanced a tote bag full of plates of cookies carefully…

Caring about the little things in the films of 2022
Voices of Faith

Caring about the little things in the films of 2022

(There are some spoilers for the film The Banshees of Inisherin ahead.) Colm Doherty cares about important things. A lifelong resident of the fictional Irish island Inisherin, Colm has spent his…

The friction of faith
Voices of Faith

The friction of faith

Last Christmas a corner of Chicago’s Wrigley Field was transformed into an ice skating rink. Skating at the rink was a far cry from the ice skating I did on…