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Features, December 2009


Cover story

'We have this treasure' 'We have this treasure'
Global music lifts Luther's 21st-century church

by Lorraine S. Brugh

On our two-way street of faith On our two-way street of faith
International exchanges strengthen churches

by Monica W. Perin

Our worldwide church Our worldwide church
Global contexts challenge Lutheran theology

by Heidi Ernst

Features

 A ministry 'blessing & challenge' A ministry 'blessing & challenge'
Sudanese find a welcome home in Southeastern Minnesota

by Mary Nasby Lohre

A little grace, with Christmas wrap A little grace, with Christmas wrap
Wartburg College students run holiday gift program

by Karris Golden

Come and behold him Come and behold him
Where? In the manger, in ourselves

by Kathryn Kleinhans

Going home for Christmas Going home for Christmas
If we get lost in the question, we'll miss the way

by Jon M. Sweeney

Meet me at the freezer Meet me at the freezer
A congregation's recipe for comfort & community

by Terri Mork Speirs

Pregnant possibilities Pregnant possibilities
Faith community could do more for the mother-to-be

by Monte Smith Peterson

The church as a  marketplace The church as a marketplace
Guyanese Lutherans are called to serve life

by Chase A. Chisholm

Will our children be generous? Will our children be generous?
Here's how to help them 'get' giving

by Kathy Haueisen Cashen

Pass the faith

Cutting back this Christmas? Cutting back this Christmas?
Easing back from holiday consumerism is freeing

by Diana Dworin

Now what? Now what?
Reeling in Grandma & Gramps

by Diana Dworin

Faces

Eye on population Eye on population
Researcher wins kudos for family planning study

by Jeff Favre

Green and growing Green and growing
Entrepreneur sees work as stewardship

by Jeff Favre

Youngchurch

'I want ... to help' 'I want ... to help'
ELCA youth deliver the gifts at Christmas


Columnists
Our faith: Reading John's words
The Gospel brings us the Word, living among us

by Lawrence J. Clark
Presiding bishop: Addressing our restlessness
God does the unexpected: A Savior is born

by Mark S. Hanson
Editor: Confronting change
The 'other' brings a few surprises

by Daniel J. Lehmann
Between us: Oh, light eight candles, laughing


by Walter Wangerin Jr.
My view: Preparing the soil
Congregations need transition pastors

by Paul N. Svingen

News
$1.49 million for malaria work

'JJJ' tour for hunger

A gift in a shoebox

ABC airs forgiveness show

Age 80, and up to his neck

Center celebration

Chilean pastor to head LWF

Citizenship help

Court refuses sex abuse block

Day 7: Chill out

ELCA clergy and lay politics differ

Four nuns a singing ...

French Protestants celebrate

Gone: HIV traveler waiver

Invisible pumpkins, visible gifts

Lutheran LEGO guy

Lutherans on land-leases

LWF budget cuts

Manz, noted organist, dies

N.D. woman sentenced

Not 'someone else's problem'

Offering plates still full

Pass up passing the peace?

Prepping for 'Earth Year'

Rape & HIV

Religious freedom worldwide?

Searching for German pastors

Swedes OK wedding liturgy

Textbooks for Tanzania

The gift of education

Then a door, now a tree

Thrivent awarded

Trustees discuss plan adjustments

Wittenberg Center staff laid off

Woman to lead German church

Workshop asks, 'What is God up to?'


Departments
Best this month: Piglet and Granny

Best this month: The Power of Pause
Becoming More by Doing Less

Best this month: Where the Wild Things Are
Modern adaptation of popular book captures childhood

Higher education: Higher education report

Reflection: Christmas light
In it, I find God's love

E-newsletter: A thin place

E-newsletter: Augsburg--Lutheran and ecumenical city

E-newsletter: Cave as sanctuary

E-newsletter: The gift

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