Bold Women’s Day, observed on the fourth Sunday in February by Women of the ELCA, celebrates Lutheran women who are boldly living their faith in Jesus Christ. Members of All…
Like most days in San Antonio, it’s hot and sticky. Rosemarie Doucette is wearing her clerical collar, and her shirt is soaked in sweat and tears. She’s just come from…
A Montana couple connects college students to church.
Munib A. Younan, president of the Lutheran World Federation and bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, visited South Korea in October for the Lutheran…
Jeffrey A. Miller, assistant professor of English at Montclair (N.J.) State University, found more than he bargained for while visiting a rare books library at Cambridge (England) University. Miller acquainted…
The ELCA World Hunger “Walk for Water” fundraising challenge of $500,000 has been met. “This is critical progress toward ELCA World Hunger’s commitment to helping communities around the world break…
More than a year after ruling narrowly that companies with religious objections can’t be forced to pay for employees’ contraceptives, the Supreme Court faced a chorus of cries from religious…
Christians shouldn’t attend same-sex weddings, even of their own children, because it signals “moral approval” of the union, said Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky.,…
When writer Tom Roberts of the National Catholic Reporter interviewed Sister Joan Chittister, a Benedictine nun who speaks her mind to her church, she said “it’s time” to open the…
Drawing on 50 years of national and international dialogue, Lutherans and Catholics on Oct. 30 made available “Declaration on the Way: Church, Ministry and Eucharist,” an ecumenical document that marks…
Some male pastors of the Seventh-day Adventist Church are changing their credentials in an act of solidarity. The protest has occurred in several U.S. states after the global denomination voted…
Ann E. Helmke, an ELCA pastor from San Antonio, received the Public Citizen of the Year Award from the National Association of Social Workers (NASW). Helmke is director of spiritual…
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