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Living Faithfully

Another mama’s baby helped me remember

I asked a mama I hardly know if I could hold her baby. She looked relieved and handed him up to me from the chair where she was helping her…
Giving voice to the voiceless
Living Faithfully

Giving voice to the voiceless

Julinda Sipayung has made it her life’s work to counsel, educate and empower Indonesian women who are victims of domestic violence to speak up and speak out. A Lutheran pastor…
Religion and radio
Living Faithfully

Religion and radio

Jason DeRose has known he wanted to be a journalist since the sixth grade, so he was as surprised as anyone to find himself at the University of Chicago earning…
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Living Faithfully

Bearing one another’s burdens

Editor’s note: May is Mental Health Month. Staff Sgt. Dan (last name withheld), a National Guard member, was called to active duty in the Middle East during a tough time…
Standing behind a cause
Living Faithfully

Standing behind a cause

Madeline Wilson (center), a student at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn., stands for a portrait with fellow students who are involved with her campaign asking the college to reform its…
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Mission & Ministry

At 100, Aunt Helen is baptized

Helen Gallik Abelt moved to Sarasota, Fla., in 1959 with her second husband and two foster daughters. Not long after the move, her husband left the family. With no nearby…
Here between Easter and Pentecost
Voices of Faith

Here between Easter and Pentecost

Here between Easter and Pentecost, our church finds itself in something of an interim time. It is, as poet and philosopher John O’Donohue reminds us, a time when the old…