The Lutheran | October 2005 Issue

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Features
	Features 'Welcome everywhere' Amity Foundation brings attention to the plight of the poor in China by John R. Gugel
	Features African American Lutherans proclaim unity
	Features Churchwide Assembly: 'Keep your eye on the horizon'
	Features Churchwide Assembly: 60 minutes of questions, concerns
	Features Churchwide Assembly: Assembly affirms ethnic strategies
	Features Churchwide Assembly: Assembly approves churchwide restructuring
	Features Churchwide Assembly: Assembly defeats ministry exceptions
	Features Churchwide Assembly: Assembly OKs budgets
	Features Churchwide Assembly: Ecumenical greetings
	Features Churchwide Assembly: Jewish groups respond
	Features Churchwide Assembly: Let the sharing begin
	Features Churchwide Assembly: More memorials than before
	Features Churchwide Assembly: Rabbi: 'It's time for peace'
	Features Churchwide Assembly: Red book gets the green light
	Features Churchwide Assembly: We can talk about tough issues
	Features ELCA health-care changes ahead by Danette M. Griffith
	Features ELCA income up, membership under 5 million
	Features First asylum, then baptism Liberian librarian knows this well: 'We live by the grace of God' by Todd Etshman
	Features From baptism to burial Orphans and elderly worship in a chapel inspired by Wartburg Castle by Heidi Ernst
	Features Hugs all around
	Features Krodel, New Testament scholar, dies
	Features LWF Council focuses on reconciliation Ecumenism, restructure, taxation of hospital are also issues by John Brooks
	Features Milk and health checks China Service Ventures visits schools in poor, rural China by Rachel Pritchett
	Features Niger: Helping amid a 'silent famine'
	Features Read the Bible with Martin Luther You'll catch his joy and see law and gospel as parallel by R. Guy Erwin
	Features Reformation scholar Forde dies
	Features Sacred space at home How your family can create a place to experience God by Isaac Arten, Chris Ocken
	Features Theologian Bouman dies
	Features Update: BTK killer sentenced
	Features Worldscan
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	Features (free) Hurricane coverage
	Features (free) Hurricane Katrina: 'Just a gumbo of wood and bricks and mortar' by Gregory Favre
	Features (free) Hurricane Katrina: 'Reach down and show mercy' by Monica W. Perin
	Features (free) Hurricane Katrina: A haven amid 'many waters' Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown itâ€? (Song of Solomon 8:7). by Ben McDonald Coltvet
	Features (free) Hurricane Katrina: A view from the ground 'Spirit of God thick' as relief, repair go on by Steve Timm
	Features (free) Hurricane Katrina: After Katrina A reflection on lessons for Sept. 5 by Julie Ryan
	Features (free) Hurricane Katrina: Caring for the children
	Features (free) Hurricane Katrina: Congregations in peril, pastors in need
	Features (free) Hurricane Katrina: ELCA colleges offer tuition for students displaced by Katrina
	Features (free) Hurricane Katrina: Financial gifts
	Features (free) Hurricane Katrina: From 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina ELCA pastor organizes ministry response to tragedies by Monica W. Perin
	Features (free) Hurricane Katrina: In Houston, family connections and quilts by Monica W. Perin
	Features (free) Hurricane Katrina: Letter from Presiding Bishop Hanson
	Features (free) Hurricane Katrina: Once lost, now found Lutheran social services staff find missing seniors, families by Elizabeth Hunter
	Features (free) Hurricane Katrina: Prayers
	Features (free) Hurricane Katrina: Prayers from their 'exile' by Monica W. Perin
	Features (free) Hurricane Katrina: Ready help in Houston
	Features (free) Hurricane Katrina: Volunteer opportunities
	Features (free) Hurricane Katrina: Words from an Angel She's far from Mississippi's ravaged coast, but her heart is there by Gregory Favre
	Features (free) Hurricane Katrina: For worship and congregations
	Features (free) Hurricane Katrina: Share your story with The Lutheran
Faces
	Faces Living with the land Balancing production & stewardship by Nicole Radziszewski
	Faces Transmitting hope from Iraq Chaplain's journal wins radio award by Nicole Radziszewski
Youngchurch
	Youngchurch From the bookshelf by Andrea S. Pohlmann Kulik
	Youngchurch Reformation in action Martin Luther comes to life in Ohio
	Youngchurch Spotlight on 'Feed My Flock'

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Meeting the 'Christian' Hans Christian Andersen

In fairy tales, I read his story of faith

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Columnists
Our faith: God is our refuge, strength by Diane L. Jacobson You asked: What's all the hubbub? by Wayne Weissenbuehler Spiritual practices: Praying for animals by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Arts & books: 'Sermons in sound' by Linda-Marie Delloff		Presiding bishop: The 2005 assembly by Mark S. Hanson Editor: A ministry of reconciliation My view: The ELCA's front burner by George S. Johnson

News		Departments
'Reach down and show mercy' But what happens now? Congregations in peril, pastors in need Facts & figures Jamboree in jeopardy Justice Rehnquist dies Rallying Lutherans to bring relief Ready to help in Houston Spirituality & cancer Who should draw the line?		Best this month: The Soul of Christianity and The Interpreter Churchscan: Churchscan Letters: Assembly actions disappoint some Early e-mails relate only to sexuality votes Light Side: It's the old family pew shake Reflection: 'More than conquerors' Our victory of eternal life comes from Christ E-newsletter: Ephoruses: You can tell them by their humor and care E-newsletter: Left behind E-newsletter: The church in China E-newsletter: Welcome to the long mourners' bench 'Let the pictures we have seen of the poor and vulnerable left behind, left to fend for themselves be seared into our souls so our arms are linked with them around the world'

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