Wednesday, July 17 – Created to Be Authentic Today, the spirit of authenticity radiated through the streets of New Orleans as colorful ELCA youth and their adult leaders energetically spread throughout the city. Regions 1 and 3 gathered for Synod Day, marked by an exhilarating scavenger hunt where participants
Removal of LGBTQ prohibition is cause of rejoicing from some By Jim Patterson May 1, 2024 | CHARLOTTE, N.C. (UM News) Randall Miller sat — looking stunned — a little removed from the impromptu celebration after delegates at General Conference swept away a decades-old policy banning LGBTQ people from serving
20 Truths From ‘Attentive Church Leadership’ “A frog waits for food to come to him, but lizards seek out their food. Churches today need to be more like lizards and less like frogs. Now the call is to go where people live, work, and play with the Good News of
From Priests to Kings: Navigating God’s Truth Through 1 Samuel In this thought-provoking episode of Sermon Notes, host Jay Strother and guest Brian Ball delve deep into the pivotal transition of Israel from a tribal confederacy to a nation under a king as depicted in the historical narratives of the
1. Homo Analogia: Between Promise and Fulfillment The guiding question of theological anthropology is poignantly stated and succinctly answered in the well-known verses from Psalms 8, which strikingly reappear in a Christological context in Hebrews 2: “What are human beings that you are mindful of them, or mortals, that you care
It is generally accepted among American Catholics (lay and cleric alike) that abstinence from meat on Fridays outside of lent is optional so long as you “substitute something else” in its place (or some variation of this). In reality, though, the law surrounding abstinence from meat in the United States
Authors’ Note: Numbers in this article were as of the writing and may have changed. Saturday, dozens of gunmen from the Palestinian militant group Hamas infiltrated southern Israel in a surprise attack that coincided with a major Jewish holiday and the 50th anniversary of the start of the 1973 Yom