Charity, Justice, and Community: My Year as an ELCA World Hunger Fellow
The Word Micah 6:8 – For what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God? Down the River As spring turns to summer, you decide to take a nice long...
“What’s Next?”: Youth to Young Adult
What Was? Throughout my youth, I was very involved in the church. In my home congregation, I regularly served as an usher and a worship assistant. I was very active in our youth group. As high school went on, I...
Dreams and Discernment: Into a New Year
We Show Up In November I attended the first ELCA Young Adult Discernment Retreat. This retreat was an incredible opportunity to find a rare space of reflection, prayer, and worship with peers, and a space to be ministered to. With...
Lift Your Voice, Lift Your Vote
The Word “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God…” (Romans 12: 2) “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the...
There is a Place for You
The Word Isaiah 55: 1-5 Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 2 Why do you spend your money for...
Church, get up.
I was born into a dying church. My parents and grandparents were born into a wider church in the United States that was growing and thriving, but for as long as I can remember the mainline church in this country...