In the aftermath of a flood or tornado, it’s easy to see the devastation. But the recent avian influenza outbreak has hit hard, undermining small-town economies while leaving no visible…
At a Conference of Bishops meeting a few years after the 2009 Churchwide Assembly, bishops shared some of the most outrageous suspicions they had heard about the churchwide office. One…
Ask a friend to define justice, and chances are good you will hear some words about fairness. If you press further, you are likely to hear an exposition of what…
If we don’t address this darkness, we will be engulfed by it.
I pick the side that admits that racism has distorted our world.
Before the gun was fired, murder had already been committed.
It operates under the radar for most of us and in most of us.
We may wonder if anything that we do will make a difference.
We are in the middle of Lent — the season of spiritual warfare, or at least really good intentions. Many of us now engage in some form of Lenten discipline….
Church is the appropriate place for honest discussion of race.
Sunday school leaders at Irving Park Lutheran Church, Chicago, used a “Hunger Hunt” to raise awareness of and money for ELCA World Hunger last year. They will likely do something…
Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream requires “praying with feet.”
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