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Gabriella and Isabella DeStefano
- Aug 19, 2015
- 2 min
A Small Church Provides an ELCA Well for Safe, Clean Water, Catches the Buzz and Makes a BIG Differe
Editor’s Note: Below you’ll find an article from two young people from Bethlehem Lutheran in Dorothy, Gabriella and Isabella DeStefano. I...
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Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton
- Jul 29, 2015
- 3 min
There is no curtain obscuring plots
Rumors, politics on three issues at odds with true discernment At a Conference of Bishops meeting a few years after the 2009 Churchwide A...
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Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton
- Apr 27, 2015
- 3 min
Worship Is The Heart of All We Do
Given competition, is it ‘hub of our week, space of our regrouping’? There is a Seattle-based caffeinated beverage company that goes to g...
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Bishop Tracie Bartholomew
- Apr 8, 2015
- 3 min
Easter Reflection
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 a...
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Cross Roads Camp and Retreat Center
- Apr 8, 2015
- 2 min
Golf Outing
Dear Friends: We would like your church/congregation to support the 2015 “Bishops’ Cup” being played at Copper Hill Country Club in Ringo...
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Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton
- Mar 9, 2015
- 3 min
Subtle shift to works righteousness
Jesus didn’t die to change behaviors, political systems, institutions We are in the middle of Lent—the season of spiritual warfare, or at...
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Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton
- Feb 9, 2015
- 3 min
We Need To Talk
Church the appropriate place for deep, honest, even painful conversation about race This summer and fall our country was shaken by violen...
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