“For what shall we pray?” is a weekly post inviting individuals, groups, and congregations to lift up our world in prayer. This resource is prepared by a variety of leaders in the ELCA and includes prayer prompts, upcoming events and observances, and prayer suggestions from existing denominational worship materials. You
In senior living facilities across Spring Hill and Columbia, something beautiful is happening. At The Church at Station Hill, our Senior Care Ministry is bringing church to those who may no longer be able to attend on their own. Week after week, volunteers walk through the doors of local facilities
St. George’s on St. Charles Avenue What if they don’t come back? The connection cards are on your desk. Someone on staff has formatted a spreadsheet. You’ve been told there’s a 48-hour window — that this is when the harvest happens, when the people who showed up on Easter Sunday
With wry bemusement I learned that Rian Johnson’s third Knives Out installment would have as its protagonist a young-ish boxing priest in Albany, New York, for I am possibly the only person in the world who matches that description. In Wake Up Dead Man Fr. Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor), an
Shusaku Endo (1923-1996) was a Japanese novelist who, despite receiving his country’s highest literary awards, saw himself as a cultural misfit. Estranged as a child from his father in a deeply patriarchal society, he converted to Catholicism at age twelve, resisted the militaristic education of wartime Imperial Japan, endured loneliness
Elder Ronald A. Rasband of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and his wife Melanie, not only spoke of a gift passed from generation to generation, but demonstrated it in an hour of conversation, interviews with their grandchildren, and scenes from the British pageant during Family Discovery Day at RootsTech
By Ashley Chepkorir [About the author] International Women’s Day, observed on March 8, is a moment to celebrate the existence, resilience and potential of women everywhere. It is also a reminder that every girl deserves the chance to imagine a future that may seem impossible in the moment. When I
In this episode of the Sermon Notes Podcast, we continue our study through 1 Peter 3 and examine what it means to live as faithful witnesses in a world that does not always understand or affirm Christian belief. Peter calls the church to humility, harmony, compassion, and brotherly love, qualities