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CPS, Healthways offer 'SilverSneakers' fitness program

Effective Jan. 1, retirees and their spouses who are enrolled in Concordia Plan Services’ (CPS)…

Birner accepts post at Concordia Wisconsin

The Rev. Dr. David Birner, a longtime LCMS missionary and mission executive, plans to begin…

LEA convocation set for Oct. 24-26 in Milwaukee

Lutheran Education Association’s (LEA) 11th triennial convocation is set for Oct. 24-26 at the Delta…

Vatican criticizes European religious freedom ruling

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The Vatican criticized a Jan. 16 ruling from the European Court…

NEWS ANALYSIS: 40 years after Roe v. Wade, abortion foes are winning — and losing

(RNS) — Four decades after Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court ruling that legalized…

March for Life's Monahan leads next generation of anti-abortion activists

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Each January in the four decades since the Roe v. Wade decision…

Mission publication available for free download

The latest issue of Missio Apostolica, the journal of the Lutheran Society for Missiology, is…

Harrison shares Epiphany message in new video

In a new Epiphany video message to the church, LCMS President Rev. Dr. Matthew C.…

'YM 13' speakers urge intentional mix of church's generations

Every congregation’s makeup is multigenerational, by nature. But, what they may not be — and…

European court says U.K. equality laws trump personal religious beliefs

CANTERBURY, England (RNS) — The European Court of Human Rights on Jan. 15 ruled that…

Europeans launch campaign to declare life starts at conception

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Anti-abortion groups from 20 different countries have launched a petition to…

Norbert Mueller, former seminary president, dies

The Rev. Dr. Norbert H. Mueller Sr., who served 17 years at Concordia Theological Seminary,…

Returned Bible foreshadows 'exciting' year for congregation

By Paula Schlueter RossWith more than a dozen robberies and incidents of vandalism in the…

Virtual vices show shift in American morality

(RNS) — The seven deadly sins have new partners in crime. Lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath,…

Christmas outreach to superstorm survivors continues into new year

By Kim Plummer Krull While Congress and insurance companies continued to crunch numbers concerning Superstorm Sandy…

St. Louis sem to host 'Making Abortion Unthinkable'

Concordia Seminary in St. Louis will present a workshop titled “Making Abortion Unthinkable” on Saturday,…