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The stuff of a thing must match its purpose. “What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or…

The Annual Inter-Lutheran Encuentro (Encounter) for Hispanic Latino ministries, co-sponsored by Lutheran CORE, is planned for the weekend of October 17-18, 2020 (schedule to be announced). Church leaders serving in…

Thank you for your generous response to our appeal for $15,000 so that we will be able to sponsor one week of NEXUS for high schoolers at Grand View University…

Editor’s Note: Mona Fuerstenau’s conviction that all people are “wonderfully made” began in high school while working with children with learning disabilities. That led her to study Speech Pathology, Gerontology…

Our teachers have been falsely accused of forbidding good works. AC, Article XX One of the charges that is often made against traditional Lutherans is that they are opposed to…

Life Was Not All It Could Be “Well, I do watch a lot of YouTube videos.” The twenty-something young man sitting in my office said it to me with an…

As I sit here, under Oregon’s version of quarantine, I have been reflecting on the extraordinary challenges facing American society in general, but also local churches in particular. Even with…

Something I find very encouraging are the plans for reopening our lives, including our churches. Typically those plans include three or four steps, a delineation of the conditions that would…

Many of you are probably already aware that the American Lutheran Publicity Bureau's (ALPB's) board is reprinting its daily prayer book, "For All the Saints."  The ALPB board approved the…