Following the shooting at Umpqua Community College where a gunman killed nine people and injured seven others, Faith Lutheran Church, Roseburg, Ore., held a vigil Oct. 1. At presstime, Jane C. Baker, pastor of Faith, said the community was invited to the vigil to be “with one another and to pray for families, students and everyone involved. Tonight we look to God. No one else has the words for this now.”
Civic engagement in an election season
In ELCA Presiding Bishop Yehiel Curry’s message “A call to be trusted messengers in this election season,” readers received an invitation: “This year, I invite you to embrace an additional…