Like millions of others, I lost my job in 2009 due to the recession. After 17 years with an international aid organization, I believed on some level that I was…
I hope you will both listen to one another in love, not in anger.
It’s “dirt-y” work that reminds us of our place in the world.
Young Lutherans are celebrating their roots, continuing the Reformation.
Different avenues can lead to a time for daily spiritual reflection.
Editor’s note: At presstime, Kelly Gissendaner’s fate was still undetermined. In 1998 she received the death penalty for persuading her boyfriend to murder her husband. If executed, Gissendaner would become…
Hold the post-worship pastries and put on your walking shoes.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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