A Statement Concerning the President's Travel Ban
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...
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Rev. John Holliday
- Oct 11, 2016
- 1 min
Annual Crop Walk Gathers Local Churches Together
For more than three decades Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Old Tappan has been participating in the annual CROP Walk in Bergen...
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njsynod
- Oct 11, 2016
- 2 min
Call a Coach: Change is Difficult but Need Not Be Lonely
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...
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njsynod
- Aug 31, 2016
- 20 min
Reflections on the 2016 Churchwide Assembly
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...
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Rev. Aaron Richter
- Aug 24, 2016
- 3 min
Feeding Children Through The Summer
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...
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njsynod
- Aug 16, 2016
- 2 min
ELCA 2016 Churchwide Assembly Reflection by Bishop Bartholomew
On August 8 – 14, sixteen voting members from across the NJ Synod joined almost one thousand other voting members in our Churchwide...
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Rev. Sara Lilja
- Dec 16, 2015
- 2 min
'Welcome' in New Jersey
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...
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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....
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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...
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njsynod
- Jun 9, 2015
- 4 min
2015 Synod Assembly Report
Build Us Up, Lord! Thank you to all who planned, attended, and participated in our assembly this year. Beginning with worship on...
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njsynod
- May 20, 2015
- 2 min
Heroin Epidemic
The numbers are troubling and more horrific than most people think. Heroin overdose death rates nearly tripled in the United States...
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Rev. Charles Austin
- May 4, 2015
- 4 min
Bond between Baptism and Holy Communion firm, but Changing
The bond between Baptism and Holy Communion can never be broken, but the way that bond is understood and practiced in ELCA congregations...
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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...
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Bishop Tracie Bartholomew
- Apr 7, 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...
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Cross Roads Camp and Retreat Center
- Apr 7, 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...
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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...
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njsynod
- Feb 4, 2015
- 2 min
'Breakfast After the Bell' Advocacy Needs!
Breakfast After the Bell Advocacy Needs! New Jersey school districts boosted the number of low-income children receiving breakfast by...
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njsynod
- Jan 7, 2015
- 3 min
Baptism Begins Real New Year by Presiding Bishop Eaton
Resolutions will always come up short in our attempts to remake ourselves A new year. Time to start over. A fresh set of possibilities....
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njsynod
- Dec 17, 2014
- 3 min
Teaching the World to Sew
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...
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