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by Karen Krueger It sounds dry, but when “nones”* are given voices in the current National Public Radio (NPR) series “Losing Our Religion,” my statistic-numbed brain quit droning “I know,…

The new year may have just begun, but your Synod Assembly Planning Committee has been perking along since the gavel dropped in 2012. Here are some items in the hopper…

Prompted by curiosity, a reminiscent custom, or a spiritual tug, it is likely there are people around your church building who want to venture inside this Christmas. Shaping up for…

by John Handley, Synod Treasurer Have you heard “Many hands make light work”? It is even true of congregation finance tasks. Separating responsibility for accounting tasks so that no one…

by Amy Acland Professional sign makers are at your service.* New road-marker signs are available through the ELCA, said a blurb in the Summer 2012 issue of Seeds for the…

Now, no need to worry – I will not soon arrive in your congregation as a new interim. But in May I attended an Interim Ministry Network’s training session to…

By action of the Synod Council this weekend, dates have been assigned for the 2013 Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Synod Assembly:  Friday & Saturday, June 21-22, 2013. Mark your calendars!

I think of it as adding what you know to what you think. At the intersection of being concerned when a registered sex offender attends worship and knowing all are children…

Questions to help a congregation discern if they are THRIVING or SURVIVING spiritually were posed to a group in the ELCA LaCrosse Area Synod recently by the Rev. Mike Woods of…

True or false? If I use it just once, I don’t have to worry about copyright law. If I quote a poem in a sermon, I have to remove the…