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Earth and Wind

Today’s post is by Robyn Sand Anderson, artist.   “Coming to faith is analogous to falling in love. One cannot fall in love in the abstract. Love comes through an encounter with another person. The same is true of faith....

Practicing Advocacy with Communities of Hope

  Today’s post is from Jennifer Crist, Pastor Mission Developer of Communities of Hope in Harrisburg, PA.   Communities of Hope, a synodically authorized worshipping community, began as an experiment to gather those unfamiliar with church and those who haven’t been to church...

Singing Our Faith: “Like the Murmur of the Dove’s Song”

  Today’s post is from John Weit, Program Director for Music for the ELCA. In these last weeks of the Easter season leading into the Day of Pentecost, many congregations will sing “Like the Murmur of the Dove’s Song” (Evangelical...

Sharing Communion in Homes, Hospitals and Prisons

  Today’s post is excerpted from the ELCA Worship FAQ How can we provide for communion of the ill, homebound, and imprisoned? A celebration of Holy Communion in the home, at the bedside of an ill or homebound person, or in...

A Glorious Weekend of Singing

  Today’s post is from Ina Berkey in Williamsburg, VA. This weekend was made possible through a grant from the ELCA Reformation Anniversary Grant Program.   On Jan. 28-29, St. Stephen Lutheran Church, along with Saint Bede Catholic Church in Williamsburg, VA...

Transformational Worship: First Communion

  Today’s post is from Marissa Sotos, mission developer at Tree of Life in Minneapolis, MN. I was 22 when I took communion for the first time. The church I grew up in only communed once a year, and by...