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A radical welcome

Like most days in San Antonio, it’s hot and sticky. Rosemarie Doucette is wearing her clerical collar, and her shirt is soaked in sweat and tears. She’s just come from…

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One, large extended family

A Montana couple connects college students to church.

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Thankful for the journey

Thankful, even when it has its share of bumps and bad times.

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LWF to South Korea

Munib A. Younan, president of the Lutheran World Federation and bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, visited South Korea in October for the Lutheran…

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Earliest draft of KJV

Jeffrey A. Miller, assistant professor of English at Montclair (N.J.) State University, found more than he bargained for while visiting a rare books library at Cambridge (England) University. Miller acquainted…

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Walk for water

The ELCA World Hunger “Walk for Water” fundraising challenge of $500,000 has been met. “This is critical progress toward ELCA World Hunger’s commitment to helping communities around the world break…

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New editor for RNS

Jerome Socolovsky was appointed editor-in-chief of Religion News Service by its Board of Managers. Socolovsky is an award-winning journalist with many years of religion reporting and editing experience. He previously…

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Mandate tested again

More than a year after ruling narrowly that companies with religious objections can’t be forced to pay for employees’ contraceptives, the Supreme Court faced a chorus of cries from religious…

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Settlage, 73, dies

A. Craig Settlage, former director for ELCA mission support, died Oct. 21 at the age of 73. In 1988, Settlage became director for candidacy and later was associate executive director…

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Call for boycott

Christians shouldn’t attend same-sex weddings, even of their own children, because it signals “moral approval” of the union, said Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky.,…

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Reader call

The magazine’s March issue will focus on welcoming. We say “all are welcome,” but what does that really mean? How does your church welcome visitors and members? Do you have…

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Secret of life

When writer Tom Roberts of the National Catholic Reporter interviewed Sister Joan Chittister, a Benedictine nun who speaks her mind to her church, she said “it’s time” to open the…