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Jeff Favre |
September 2010 |
| From nonbelief to belief |
| Sword swallower puts God in his act |
| Dan Meyer estimates that it took him thousands of unsuccessful attempts to swallow a sword before he got it right. And once he learned, it took only one misstep to almost end his life. At h
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August 2010 |
| Tough road for missionaries |
| It's hard breaking into the "closed societies" of Northern churches, Tanzanian Lutheran leader Fidon R. Mwombeki told the 2010 World Missionary Conference in June.
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| Features |
Nicole Adamson |
August 2010 |
| Evangelism gets new wheels |
| The ELCA rolls out grassroots approach |
| They gather Sunday afternoons in a St. Paul, Minn., storefront for worship. A hodgepodge of neighborhood folks, some were raised in the Lutheran tradition. Others are hearing God's word for the fi
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| Features |
Elizabeth Lobulu |
August 2010 |
| It starts with 'Hodi' |
| In Tanzania, Lutherans boldly invite people to church |
| How do you knock on someone's door and invite them to worship? In Tanzania, you simply say "Hodi," a Swahili greeting that is, literally, a door-opener. Your host will reply "Karibu
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| Cover story |
Anne Ford |
July 2010 |
| 'Every day is Sunday' |
| for ELCA military chaplains |
| When Army Reservist Christopher D. Laughlin was a homesick 18-year-old in basic training eight years ago, two things sustained him through weeks of drill-sergeant diatribes and endless pu
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May 2010 |
| Card of the week |
| Each week, Melody Sell, pastor of Washingtonville [Pa.] Lutheran Church places a card in the narthex, which members sign before it goes out in Monday's mail.
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| Cover story |
Elizabeth Hunter |
May 2010 |
| Hospitality: It takes guts |
| Are we up to the challenge? |
| Let's get one thing straight: hospitality isn't easy. Gospel hospitality is downright gutsy. In an age of polarization, pundits and security concerns, gospel hospitality reveals mission for wh
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| Presiding bishop |
Mark S. Hanson |
May 2010 |
| The strangers among us |
| What message might God send in these people? |
| Those who knew my mother still describe her amazing gift of hospitality. Even 16 years after her death, it is wonderful to hear descriptions of a delicious meal, lively conversation, joyful singing,
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March 2010 |
| Davey & Goliath animator dies |
| Art Clokey, 88, animator of the TV series Davey and Goliath, died Jan. 8. In 1959 the former United Lutheran Church in America approached Clokey Productions Inc. to create a TV show similar to its Gu
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| Features |
Wendy Healy |
February 2010 |
| Ministry of space |
| Church cleans out the loft, brings in the band |
| Church cleans out the loft, brings in the band.
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