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Mission & Ministry

Women and the Reformation: Then & Now

How did — and does — the Reformation affect the lives of women? If this relationship was documented on Facebook, the status might be “it’s complicated.” The Old Testament tells…

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Voices of Faith

Youth Gathering serves, highlights Christ

One of our youth became sick during closing worship of the Youth Gathering (page 16). Waiting outside the medical area, two women who work at the Ford Center asked if…

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Living Faithfully

Fitness, fellowship and faith

Hold the post-worship pastries and put on your walking shoes.

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Mission & Ministry

A month of peaceful dialogue

Shaina Lidd, a Jewish American, and Mathilda Nassar, a Lutheran from the occupied West Bank, have a friendship that might seem unlikely to some. When they met and Nassar said…

Furry friend brings laughter, cheer to seniors
Living Faithfully

Furry friend brings laughter, cheer to seniors

When I first heard the idea of dogs in nursing homes, I thought, ‘No way,’” said Ted Goins, who was a nursing home administrator before becoming president and CEO of…

Halloween: Trick or treat?
Living Faithfully

Halloween: Trick or treat?

When the toddler daughter of a friend was just learning to talk, she spent Halloween shouting, “Trick treat! Trick treat!” She was way ahead of her time, that youngster, for…

Through a glass darkly
Living Faithfully

Through a glass darkly

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I…

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Living Faithfully

‘True Tales from Trinity’

A stool is placed next to the lectern and an old-fashioned radio is set on top. A man wearing headphones pretends to turn on the radio and then speaks into…

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Living Faithfully

The art of tradition

Whether it be caroling with the church choir, baking Christmas cookies for neighbors or making a day of selecting the perfect blue spruce to chop down and decorate, Christmas traditions…