In my office hangs my ordination certificate. Across it is emblazoned the name of the ordaining body, the body whose confessional commitments I pledged to uphold on the day I…
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WE ARE ALL VULNERABLE There have been many occasions when someone who is a member of a congregation that is still in the ELCA has shared with me, “I have…
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“Do not fear, for am I in the place of God?” (Genesis 50:19) Joseph’s brothers had cruelly rejected him and sold him into slavery.  Now, in the days following their…
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