As Christian leaders and Bishops of the Church of God who live and minister in a state marked by wide religious and ethnic diversity, we...

For more than three decades Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Old Tappan has been participating in the annual CROP Walk in Bergen...

There's no doubt that this is an exciting and sometimes even scary time to be the church. Change is happening all around. Old models of...

From Rev. Mona Fitch-Elliott (St. John, Jersey City): Bishop Eaton presided with humor and flair and I was glad to be there. We chose...

For many, the summer can be a care-free and leisurely time, as children take time away from school and the warm and sunny weather carries...

On August 8 – 14, sixteen voting members from across the NJ Synod joined almost one thousand other voting members in our Churchwide...

You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt (Deuteronomy 10:19) Steadfast love is about God; God acts...

Editor’s Note: Below you’ll find an article from two young people from Bethlehem Lutheran in Dorothy, Gabriella and Isabella DeStefano....

Rumors, politics on three issues at odds with true discernment At a Conference of Bishops meeting a few years after the 2009 Churchwide...

Build Us Up, Lord! Thank you to all who planned, attended, and participated in our assembly this year. Beginning with worship on...

The numbers are troubling and more horrific than most people think. Heroin overdose death rates nearly tripled in the United States...

The bond between Baptism and Holy Communion can never be broken, but the way that bond is understood and practiced in ELCA congregations...

Given competition, is it ‘hub of our week, space of our regrouping’? There is a Seattle-based caffeinated beverage company that goes to...

Mark 16:1-8 When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary, the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, so that they might go...

Dear Friends: We would like your church/congregation to support the 2015 “Bishops’ Cup” being played at Copper Hill Country Club in...

Jesus didn’t die to change behaviors, political systems, institutions We are in the middle of Lent—the season of spiritual warfare, or at...

Church the appropriate place for deep, honest, even painful conversation about race This summer and fall our country was shaken by...

Breakfast After the Bell Advocacy Needs! New Jersey school districts boosted the number of low-income children receiving breakfast by...

Resolutions will always come up short in our attempts to remake ourselves A new year. Time to start over. A fresh set of possibilities....

Lord of Life, Tabernacle In 2009, Penny Miller, a member of Lord of Life in Tabernacle and a registered nurse, went with a 25- person...