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  • Why I am a Wesleyan

    By Kevin M. Watson  Almost all of my writing for the church and the academy has focused in one way or another on the Wesleyan theological tradition. From time to time I am asked: Why are you Wesleyan? When I was in seminary, I remember experiencing some shock at the

  • October Update: Advocacy Connections

    from the ELCA advocacy office in Washington, D.C. – the Rev. Amy E. Reumann, Senior Director Partial expanded content from Advocacy Connections: October 2022 GLOBAL MALNUTRITION PREVENTION AND TREATMENT ACT PASSES!  |  DACA-RELATED DECISION STILL INDICATES NEED OF PERMANENT PROTECTIONS  |  INFLATION REDUCTION ACT AND CHURCH BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE  |  ACUTE

  • Psalm 84:1-7

    ​Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost 1How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts! 2My soul longs, indeed it faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God. 3Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for

  • Humanae Vitae and the Brave New World

    What will our future look like? For in discussing the topic of human sexuality, we are, bottom line, discussing the future. Because it concerns reproduction, sexuality is future oriented. Sexuality raises the question of the future because, at least up to now and for the time being, it is the