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‘Free Gift: See Inside!’

“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God—not the result of works, so that no one…
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Matthew lectionary series: What is good soil?

We all come from different places. When we read the Bible, we use our own contexts to imagine the scenes in our heads. This can be helpful for personalizing the…
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Grace alone

This year we observe the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. We might do more justice to the goal of Martin Luther and others who worked with…
Quickly and cheerfully
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Quickly and cheerfully

Editor’s note: This article is the fourth in a four-part series exploring the relevance of Martin Luther’s catechism for our lives today. Now that I am staring 50 in the…
Filled
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Filled

I have a close friend, an atheist, who helps keep my faith life honest and searching. A very Christ-like person in many ways, his questions are always rather pointed. I’m…
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30 seconds of silence

For me, a powerful part of the Sunday liturgy is that short silence observed most weeks during the confession at the beginning of the service. We’ll belt out something mostly…
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What it feels like being an anxious churchgoer

I grew up going to a Lutheran church several times a week, and it was one of my favorite things to do. I still love a good Lutheran liturgy, but…
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Cemetery walk

Cemeteries simultaneously fill me with fear and awe. I’m not ashamed to admit that you wouldn’t find me walking alone at night in a cemetery, but I’m also not ashamed…
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Jesus: Living stone

On the final Sunday of August we’ll hear the prophet Isaiah urge us to “look to the rock from which you were hewn” (Isaiah 51:1). In these late summer Sundays,…
I’m a Lutheran: Grace Wolf-Chase
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I’m a Lutheran: Grace Wolf-Chase

“I’m a Lutheran” is a monthly profile featuring ELCA members around the country. The profiles showcase ELCA members in all their diversity, connecting one another through individual faith stories as…
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Growing faith

Over the course of my life, it has become easier for me to trust God. My faith has not grown because I’m exceptional, but simply because I have more experiences…
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Perspective: A bigger table in a divisive era

On July 26, the Trump administration filed an amicus brief stating that the provisions under Title VII (which dates back to 1964) do not refer to people in the LGBTQIA…