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Lasting learning

What's the lasting and most helpful thing you learned in seminary?

More than just 'preacher factories'

ELCA seminaries provide traditional Lutheran theological education & prepare students for tomorrow's church

by Charles M. Austin

Features

'The Light of Christ'

A little lesson about the large candle

by Michael Kern

A growing church in Sweden's Silicon Valley

by Chris Mosey

A laughing matter

Iowa congregation reaches out with laughter club

by Laura Gentry

Adopting across cultures

Such adoptions can enrich family life, parents say

by Karris Golden

Bones for a new day

'For a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have' (Luke 24:39)

by Frank G. Honeycutt

He's just plain 'Anders'

Sweden's new archbishop reveals the challenges facing Lutherans there

by Chris Mosey

It wasn't exactly a wedding ...

but on this day two did become one

by Celie Metz Addy

The gift of Shabbat

From the mourning after crucifixion comes the astonishment of resurrection

by Vitor Westhelle

Two parts faith, one part humor

Do the two mix?

by Sonia C. Solomonson

Faces

A heart for life

Minnesota man wants defibrillators in the game

by Merrie Sue Holtan

Fear gives way

Executive shares faith with prisoners

by Carol Kehlmeier

Youngchurch

Colorful message

How to transform your sanctuary on Easter morning

Web exclusives

'A rainbow family'

by William & Laura Gentry

A diploma in one hand, debt in the other

by Janet Lunder Hanafin

Fun in adult Sunday school?

'People love to learn when laughing is involved'

by Marty Zimmann

The Easter crowd

I used to criticize them, but not now

by Donna Schaper

The way we were: 1953

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