Wednesday 06 January 2016
Renee Labat is serving a year in Argentina. Labat names her faith homes as Good Shepherd, Inver Grove Heights and Augustana, West Saint Paul. 2015 has marked a year of great…
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“Refugees Welcome” reads a sign in the window of a toy store in my neighborhood. Though the merchandise inside appeals to children, the message is one at the very heart…
Read PostWednesday 06 January 2016
“The beauty of storytelling is that everyone can do it…and everyone is changed by it,” The Rev. Justin Grimm writes, following “The Power and Practice of Personal Storytelling with Mark…
Read PostWednesday 04 November 2015
On a beautiful late-summer day in Minnesota, four Lutheran churches from New Brighton and Mounds View – Abiding Savior, Atonement, Christ the King, and Cross of Glory – teamed up…
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At the recent Iringa Fall Festival, the Rev. Peter Harrits, director of Bega Kwa Bega, spoke of the dangers of the single story. The single story is the concept that…
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Walking down the street this morning I find myself fighting the urge to let my eyes drift from the concrete blocks in front of me, instead they want to roam…
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This fall I spent a week in Guatemala. An hour before the plane landed we were handed forms to fill out for screening at customs as we entered the country….
Read PostTuesday 08 September 2015
As part of a synod-wide visioning process, about 150 people attended sessions held at six congregations in July and August. Trinity, Lindstrom; Redeemer, White Bear Lake; Augustana, West Saint Paul;…
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