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Living Faithfully

Lent: Taking up faith practices

You can learn ways to integrate them into your daily life.

Living Faithfully

The world’s slaves for Jesus

The meaning of “If you lose your life, you will find it.”

Living Faithfully

2014 an unsettling year, with religion in starring role

For most of recorded history, Isis was an Egyptian goddess who cared for widows and orphans, cured the sick and even brought the dead back to life. In 2014 the…

Living Faithfully

Balancing ‘being’ and ‘doing’

Time for being with God and time for loving and helping others.

Voices of Faith

Just do it – pray

Take a jump into the deep. Pray. Serve. Hold a hand. Trust God.

Living Faithfully

Called to a new life, ministry

A former Catholic priest studies to become an ELCA pastor.

Living Faithfully

Finding faith tracks

Train!” I exclaim, pointing at the tracks. Driving down the road with my 5-year-old son, I often find myself pointing out the trains we pass. Since he was born he,…

Living Faithfully

‘Our one constant is change’

Sanctuary of Marshfield, Mass., likes to think outside the church. From the style of its building, which resembles an A-frame ski lodge in the woods, to an altar made of…

Living Faithfully

Posters show pastors in new light

If the posters on these pages are any indication, the La Crosse Area Synod has the hippest pastors around. And if the posters don’t make you want to come to…

Mission & Ministry

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…

Mission & Ministry

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…

Living Faithfully

A wish for a longer Epiphany

It is that obscure little season between Christmas and Lent.