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My first staff meeting with the Rev. Leila Ortiz, new Assistant to the Bishop in the synod, and already I learned something! She voiced an audio program designed to help…

The story of our time together in pictures…

After we affixed our nametags, glugged a bit of coffee (and those scones… did you try the scones?) and smiled welcome to new and old friends in Christ, worship set…

Pastor Samuel Barber of the congregation Dominion Apostolic congregation uses Pastor Mitch Watney’s Good Samaritan Lutheran building for worship in Leonardtown, Md. The two pastors shared in a video discussion…

Among biblical models of church, the Church at Antioch pushed out into the world. The Church of Jerusalem by contrast was a come-and-see-us type of church. Teaching, fellowship, breaking bread,…

Half of us went to lunch, half of us thoughtfully shared our input with the ELCA Churchwide Representative to our Synod Assembly, the Rev. Cherlyne Beck – then we traded.…

The synod’s Racial Equity Team gave its first of three presentations this morning via a video from All Saints Lutheran Church in Bowie, Md. In this powerful video, the Rev.…

Reflections shared from our opening Festive Eucharist. Prayers of intercession: Petitions were delivered as various readers came to the microphones around the room. They lifted up the diversity of our…