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Mercy
You gotta be kidding. Jack is dating Mindy? Oh, mercy me. She’s young enough to be his daughter!” Call that a casual use of the word that is our all-purpose…
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Our malaria moment
We have just $500,000 left to raise for the ELCA Malaria Campaign! ELCA members and congregations have given more than $14.5 million to fund the initiatives of our Lutheran companions…
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Adages
Solomon is reported to have composed 3,000 of them (1 Kings 4:32). Daily we see them on Instagram posts, coffee cups, bumper stickers, tweets and T-shirts. Ninety years ago one…
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Faith in action
Service to others is a key practice of discipleship. Many churches organize service (or mission) trips as an eye-opening way to put faith into action. These independently organized “volunteer vacations”…
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Generosity
There’s an old tale of a monk who found a precious gemstone. He picked it up and put it in his knapsack and carried it with his few other belongings….
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Beyond memos
Here we are, practitioners of memos: We send email and we receive it, We copy it and forward it and save it and delete it. We write to move the…
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Signs of faith in the Holy Land
For the first time in years, Johnny Bannoura is excited about going to church. Participating in worship is difficult for Bannoura and his four siblings, all deaf since birth. Trained…
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Faith
Most of the truly valuable things in life aren’t well suited for measurement. Try quantifying the next kiss someone plants on your cheek, for example. What criteria would you employ?…