Amid rising rhetoric and crimes against American Muslims, the White House in December broadcast a counter message about religious pluralism. “There are no second-class faiths in the U.S.A.,” said Melissa…
It has come down to the final 460 words (the length of these missives). This is my last column as editor of The Lutheran. I’ve made some of the points…
Pick up any modern convenience that you consider useful — a cellphone, zippered sweater, electric toothbrush — and you can be sure that object, in its original form, started out…
Sometimes I just don’t get us. We are the least likely of all people to speak enthusiastically about our church. I don’t know if it is some cross-cultural Lutheran modesty…
Why not pray with our whole bodies? Why not pray with our whole selves?
As we journey, may we not weary as we wander through our nights.
And it’s all a mystery and a miracle why God calls us, any of us.
The world has yearnings, and our churches can answer some of them.
To know God is to know the riches of God’s grace lavished on us.
Shishmaref, Alaska, is often used as an example for those wanting to tell the story of climate change in the Arctic. But Marvin Jonasen, pastor of Shishmaref Lutheran Church, says…
Photos by Kathryn Brewer These are just a few of the things readers found when cleaning out church cupboards and closets, basements and attics: Mimeograph supplies. A poker table. A…
Meeting in Chicago Nov. 12-15, the ELCA Church Council took action on a variety of matters it hopes will move forward the church’s mission and ministries. The council adopted a…
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