Blessings as we enter holy week! Many of you have journeyed with ELCA World Hunger through Lent as we have reflected on the Psalms and what meaning that vast collection of hymns, poems, laments and prayers might have for hunger ministry today. As the season comes to a close, thank
1So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, 3for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ
Predicting Your Worship Attendance for the Next Year Can you really predict your church’s worship attendance for the next year? Our answer is “maybe.” Being the Church: Church Attendance Isn’t the Goal Regular church attendance must always be the beginning of Christian responsibility but never the end of it. A
Pärt’s Cultural Influence and Ensuing Controversies How can we judge if the events and the consequences in Pärt’s life in 1968 had any long-standing cultural influence? Let us look at the context: in classical music, historians look back to clear transitions when the reiterated elements that conformed the accepted style
Then went one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, to the chief priests and said to them: What will you give me, and I will deliver him unto you? But they appointed him thirty pieces of silver. And from thenceforth he sought opportunity to betray him (Matt 26:
The following is excerpted from the Church News. To read the full article, CLICK HERE. Sister Kristin M. Yee, second counselor in the Relief Society general presidency, was traveling recently to a priesthood leadership conference when weather and mechanical issues delayed her flight, leaving her stuck in an airport for
By Keith Boyette — The process of church disaffiliation has completed its second wave, with churches disaffiliating through special sessions of their annual conferences in the fall. This piecemeal process of disaffiliation is not what we had hoped for when I joined other traditionalist, centrist, and progressive leaders to announce
Wednesday in Holy Week 1Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, 2looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter