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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…
Mission & Ministry
Holden community in exile, yet connected
When Washington state’s Wolverine fire threatened the only road to Holden Village, staff of the Lutheran retreat center was evacuated to the ferry and down Lake Chelan. They became the…
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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‘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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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…
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Taking a walk
Daryl Hogbin admits his desk job is sedentary, he tends to be an introvert, and his fallback position on daunting tasks is that they are probably insurmountable. So it surely…
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5 things that happen when you get a new pastor
Pastors and congregations live in transition. Congregants come and congregants go. Pastors arrive and pastors leave. In some contexts this is more common than in others, and it’s worth noting that there is…
Voices of Faith
The Reformation and ‘The Lutheran’
Our presiding bishop offers insight into what it means to be a Lutheran today in her column (page 50), a timely reflection given observance of the Reformation each October and…
Mission & Ministry
Witness
You have to be fast on your feet in airports these days. There is a quick shuffle in loading up those gray bins on the security conveyer belt. Passengers yank…
Mission & Ministry
Extending and receiving welcome
Megan Rohrer’s path to ministry could be likened to that of Jonah. Time and again Rohrer heard God’s call to become a pastor in the urgings of professors, pastors and…
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A night out in the cold
Sleeping on the hard ground was uncomfortable and their feet were cold, but youth from Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Boonsboro, Md., are wasting no time in signing up again…
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Rising up together
Click here to see all the photos from the 2015 ELCA Youth Gathering. Photos by Chris Ocken. At a neighborhood park in Detroit, Callan Geier, 17, and David Philpot, 74,…
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