When Emily Scott started dreaming up St. Lydia, an ELCA congregation in Brooklyn, N.Y., that worships around a dinner table, she didn’t know that she would help spark a dinner…
For 25 years, music has played a vital role at House of Mercy, St. Paul, Minn. In addition to regularly hosting concerts by local and national acts, the congregation has…
Picturing God Author-illustrator Ruth Goring depicts over a dozen biblical images for God, including “Word,” “Light,” “Living Water” and “Bread of Life.” Her text and illustrations combine to provide a…
Frolic Prayer Cards “Dear God, Our world is small, but your world is big. Bring peace to each heart, home, street, town, and country. Amen.” Many caregivers of little…
When the preacher takes the pulpit during any given liturgy, what do they stand upon? This is the question Jon Meyer Ericson attempts to analyze and answer in his book…
Noah Hepler, pastor of Evangelical Lutheran Church of Atonement in Philadelphia, is the featured “hero” in the premiere of the new season of Netflix’s Queer Eye series. What did he…
Erika Bergh, pastor of Christ Our Savior Lutheran Church in Anchorage, Alaska, has found a new way to worship during the COVID-19 pandemic—through a Nintendo Switch. Bergh and her spouse,…
When Noah Hepler, pastor of Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Atonement in Philadelphia, was nominated by a member of his congregation council to be a featured “hero” on the Netflix…
At its 2019 assembly, the Delaware-Maryland Synod set a goal of having everyone in its congregations regularly engaged in reading Scripture over the next year. To encourage members toward this…
In the introduction to his Devotional Classics (HarperCollins, 1993), Richard J. Foster wrote: “We today suffer from the unexamined notion that the more recent something is, the better, the more…
Khristi Lauren Adams is a speaker, a pastor of the American Baptist Churches USA and an advocate for young women. She’s also the founder and director of the Becoming Conference…
Editor’s note: The following address was given by John Thomsen on Oct. 5, 2019, in Blair, Neb., at a rededication ceremony for the Tower of the Four Winds, a memorial…
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