This month’s column is in response to the July “Pressure Points” concerning spiritual warfare. To read the July column online, go to http://reporter.lcms.org/?20138. One reader responded to that column with what follows. I think your answer covered a lot of…
(RNS) — The number of congregations that host worship services at more than one physical location has grown to more than 5,000 in the last decade, according to a new report. Researchers say these “multisite” churches, which may share worshippers across…
(RNS) — A lawsuit that was filed by the group American Atheists to keep a revered cross out of the National September 11 Museum is being challenged by a conservative law firm that defends the public display of religious symbols. The…
(RNS) — A professor who was fired in July by the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) says the Atlanta consortium of black seminaries discriminated against his conservative Christian views. The Rev. Jamal-Dominique Hopkins, an African-American expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls, filed…
Calling her “the right person at the right time,” LCMS President Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison performed the rite of installation for Nicole Ridley as chief executive officer of the LCMS National Housing Support Corporation Aug. 22 at the Synod’s…
Registration is set to open Sept. 15 and run through Nov. 15 for “UNWRAPPED” — the first Synod-sponsored national campus-ministry conference in 10-plus years. To register for the conference and for more information about it, go to the Synod’s campus-ministry…
To foster LCMS members in their love of faithful hymnody and in an effort to cultivate and develop aspiring writers, the LCMS Worship Department, under the auspices of the Office of National Mission, will host a Hymnwriters Conference Jan. 27-29…
By Kim Plummer Krull In the early 1980s, a member of St. Peter Lutheran Church in Brooklyn, N.Y., was bound, gagged, raped, doused in gasoline and left for dead as her house burned in an area infamous for crime and…
With Barbara A. Below With less than a year to go until the 2013 LCMS convention, there has already been a lot of work toward putting in place its basic structure. The electronic voting system that will be used at…
A coloring contest for students in preschool through eighth grade is being sponsored for the third consecutive year by the Lutheran Hour Ministries (LHM) Float Committee. Each year the committee plans, designs, raises funds for, promotes and decorates — along…
Roberta “Bobbie” Lautenschlager, executive director of Lutherans in Medical Missions (LIMM), died Aug. 18, surrounded by loved ones at her home in St. Louis. Lautenschlager, 68, died of non-smoker’s small-cell lung cancer, which was diagnosed in March. A memorial service is…
By Paula Schlueter Ross People always tell Lutheran homeschooler Jenny Luedeke that she “must have a lot of patience.” In reality, Luedeke — mother of five sons ages three months to 8 years — says her patience often wears thin.…
San Antonio challenges its visitors to “Remember the Alamo” as they take in the legendary battle site there. But when 237 participants gathered in San Antonio July 12-15 for the Synod’s 2013 NATIONAL youth workers leadership-training conference, they heard the challenge…
Synod President Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison expresses concern to drought-affected rural and small-town Synod congregations and their families and thanks them for their support for the church in a video message made available Aug. 15. At four minutes, 19…
The Synod’s Office of National Mission welcomed four new staff members in August. The Rev. Steven T. Cholak of The Woodlands, Texas, began serving full time Aug. 1 as project coordinator for Special Ministries. Cholak, former pastoral assistant and administrator for…
(RNS) — Meet the social media “nones.” A new survey finds that Americans, while mostly religious, generally do not use social media to supplement worship and mostly keep their faith private online. The Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) survey found about…
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