Highly recommended
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Highly recommended

For children and families Looking for Jesus: A Manna and Mercy Easter Board Book Calling all fans of ELCA pastor Daniel Erlander’s books and resources: Look no further than Looking…
Resurrected to new ways of being church
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Resurrected to new ways of being church

Michael Plekon served for 40 years as a minister in both the Western and Eastern churches, initially as an ELCA pastor and later as a priest in the Orthodox Church…
Songs of generosity
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Songs of generosity

Eric Krewson wrote most of his band’s new album while living in a 6-by-6-foot shack in the Cascade Mountains in fall 2019. The frontman and lead songwriter of the Philadelphia…
Calls for compassion in the films of 2021
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Calls for compassion in the films of 2021

For the first 30 minutes of Mass, nothing much happens. Sitting in the nondescript basement of a Midwestern church, two couples—Jay and Gail (Jason Isaacs and Martha Plimpton) and Richard…
Highly recommended: Resources for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany
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Highly recommended: Resources for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

For children and families Families Celebrate Advent & Christmas 2021-2022 The 2021-2022 deck of 56 Families Celebrate Advent & Christmas cards spans the four weeks of Advent, starting on Nov….
An infectious enthusiasm for theology
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An infectious enthusiasm for theology

Sarah Hinlicky Wilson holds many titles—Lutheran pastor, author, professor, theologian and cook, among others. She serves as a pastor of Tokyo Lutheran Church in Japan and is an affiliated faculty…
Authenticity and the ancient practice of lament
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Authenticity and the ancient practice of lament

You Can Talk to God Like That: The Surprising Power of Lament to Save Your Faith (Broadleaf Books, 2021) is the provocative title of Abby Norman’s new book. A pastor in…
A neurodiverse church
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A neurodiverse church

When Daniel Bowman Jr. received an autism diagnosis in his mid-30s, so much suddenly clicked into place. His new book, On the Spectrum: Autism, Faith, and the Gifts of Neurodiversity…
Grace “changed everything”
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Grace “changed everything”

Katie Langston has nearly completed her journey to becoming an ELCA pastor—but the path there was anything but linear. Her new book, Sealed: An Unexpected Journey Into the Heart of…
Perspective: Restoring all things
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Perspective: Restoring all things

If you’re like me, the pandemic has brought you to all sorts of new streaming shows you might never have discovered otherwise. One of my favorites is The Repair Shop,…