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Keep awake, stay woke

“Keep awake therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.” This verse from Matthew 24, the first Gospel reading of Advent, focuses the reader on the…
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I’m a Lutheran: Greta Grosch

“I’m a Lutheran” is a monthly profile featuring ELCA members around the world. The profiles showcase ELCA members in all their diversity, connecting one another through individual faith stories as…
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Grace puts an end to HIV and AIDS

Editor’s note:  This Dec. 1, the ELCA joins brothers and sisters across the world in observing World AIDS Day. Read reflections from three individuals who attended the 21st International AIDS Conference this summer in Durbin,…
Deeper understandings: How the Lutheran Confessions unite us
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Deeper understandings: How the Lutheran Confessions unite us

Series editor’s note: We continue in the yearlong study of Reformation and Martin Luther studies themes, grateful that this month two church historians share their perspectives on the continuing relevance…
Prayer as a mother
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Prayer as a mother

In an ever-changing world, I think that our prayer life is constantly in flux. We all wrestle and grow with our faith. We move forward in contemplation only to fall backward again…
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A collaboration of voices

We talk. We listen. The Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC) took these words from ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth A. Eaton to heart. Following the 2015 shooting at Emanuel…
Jesus bread
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Jesus bread

The communion bread my wife Kathy brought home from the Easter Vigil at Abiding Hope Lutheran Church in Erie, Pa., was the late Milton Sontheimer’s recipe. It was light, slightly…
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I’m a Lutheran: Howard Stendahl

“I’m a Lutheran” is a monthly profile featuring ELCA members around the world. The profiles showcase ELCA members in all their diversity, connecting one another through individual faith stories as…
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Courage to be the church

A lot of folks are in a daze right now, trying to figure out what the outcome of this election means for the United States. Regardless of how we feel—happy,…
The beginning is near
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The beginning is near

The times and seasons kept by the body of Christ often bear a consoling and encouraging witness in contrast with the times and seasons of our surrounding culture. Fear and…
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Fear and love

In my Lutheran grade school we were assigned a memory verse every week. Friday morning, before lessons began, our ability to write these verses on our lips was tested. Normally…