This year we’re putting an emphasis on stories that highlight leadership and leaders from around the ELCA. “I’m a Lutheran leader” is an online feature that highlights the many ways…
Pentecost didn’t happen only once. The noise intensified. The joy palpable. Community present. A community that had just met. A community that came from different countries and different walks of…
But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” — Luke 10:29 A week ago, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided a Mexican restaurant near…
In 1960, Walt Disney released the movie Pollyanna, starring Hayley Mills. As a little boy, I was madly in love with Hayley, even though she never returned my letters. In…
On the surface, Rachel Marie Stone’s new book, Birthing Hope: Giving Fear to the Light (IVP, 2018), is about parenthood and the challenges of giving birth around the world. But…
At first, I was a little concerned about comedian Amy Schumer’s new movie, I Feel Pretty, largely because I felt the controversial premise could go either way. Schumer plays Renee,…
When I concluded my ministry at Epiphany Lutheran Church in Dale City, Va., I prayed for an immediate call within the Metropolitan Washington, D.C., Synod to avoid moving our youngest…
“The last thing my pastor told me before I left for college was that if I majored in biology, I’d go to hell.” Several seminary instructors had been invited to…
Editor’s note: This entry is the fifth in a multipart series on white fragility. Read the introduction here, part two here, part three here and part four here. The final…
In a favorite moment of 2012’s The Avengers, supervillain Loki taunts the Hulk by bellowing, “You are, all of you, beneath me!” But just as Loki declares, “I am a…
In the Gospel text for the seventh Sunday of Easter (John 17:6-19), Jesus prays for the disciples as his earthly journey nears its end. What was Jesus feeling as he…
Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Saratoga, Calif. Engineer I believe God created the universe and everything in it. I believe God gave us the power to think and discover, the…
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