Blessing
Thirty minutes before our son and his fiancee walked down the aisle to exchange vows for a lifetime, the rabbi steered them into the large dining room of the house…
Thirty minutes before our son and his fiancee walked down the aisle to exchange vows for a lifetime, the rabbi steered them into the large dining room of the house…
Hometown bakery builds community, one loaf at a time
This week’s reflection on sacred space is from Kelly Faulstich, pastor of Resurrection Lutheran Church in Chicago.
I was reminded how I first learned about and experienced God’s love.
College students from Chicago’s South Loop are meeting their neighbors in a most unusual way: each Sunday night, they walk a shopping cart through the streets and hand out sandwiches…
It’s a faith that inspires us to respond to the world we live in.
As a church, we need to avoid generalizing about millennials.
ELCA schools provide opportunities for that growth to happen.
We strive to let go of everything but the love and grace of God.
We must learn to trust the unspoken relationship we have with God.
As a teen, Alen Omerbegovic and his family were forced out of their home during the ethnic cleansing that accompanied the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s. They…
Needing respite from Seattle’s daily grind, Christoph Schmidt embarked on a journey to Holden Village in 2005. The retreat center in the Cascade Mountains offered him the chance to recharge…
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