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- Category: American Civil Religion
- Ways We Try to Justify Our Traditions: Sports and Beyond
- The Assault of Rampant Anti-Abortion Legislation and the ELCA Social Statement
- An Inclusive American Exceptionalism
- American Exceptionalism, Except for….
- Connecting Communities for the Common Good
- Doing Nothing Could Have Dangerous Consequences
- What Do We Believe This July 4?
- Black Friday
- To Be a Trusted Leader
- Comments on Our Various Vocations in the Public World
- Bread for the World
- Where are the prophets?
- Another View on American Civil Religion
- In Debt We Trust
- The Pervasiveness and Persuasiveness of an Ever-changing American Civil Religion (Part 1)
- Super Bowl XLIII
- An NRSV of ACR?
- Opening Prayer at the Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast In Dubuque, Iowa, January 19, 2009
- Category: Church and State
- The Free Exercise of Religion for Whom?
- 60th Anniversary of Brown and the Absolute Necessity of Public Schools
- Issues of Religious Freedom and LGBT Rights Not Over With One Veto
- Lutherans Adopt “The Church and Criminal Justice: Hearing the Cries”
- But Can’t We Just Avoid the Conversation About Gun Violence?
- To Vote for Your Neighbor is Not Fraud
- What Does the Middle East Have to Do with Sunday School?
- From Winter to Spring at the County Political Convention
- Separation of Church and State offers Freedom to be Religious in the Public Arena
- Pluralism, Parenthood, Contraception and Roman Catholicism
- The Most Important Issue Not Being Talked About
- Chairs at the Feet of God
- The Risk of Love
- Punctuality and Pedagogs
- Bicyles in the Snow
- The Value of Theology is in the Questions it Raises
- Global Consultation in Augsburg
- The Melting Pot
- Category: Class and Race
- Shootout
- Power, People and the George Washington Bridge
- A Letter to Malcolm in Prison on the death of Mandela
- Who Is at the Front of the Room? “Higher” Education
- When Help Is Not Just a Phone Call Away
- He said, “I ought to kill you.”
- Where do we go after the Shootings in Newtown?
- Running Together Rather than Being Chased by Fears
- Pro-Choice and Pro-Labor and, Therefore, Truly “Pro-Life”
- Race, Religion, Women, Economic Privilege ARE the Issues, so Let’s Talk about Them
- Olympics that Include All Make All Strong
- Nuns on the Bus
- So Why am I More Afraid of My Neighbor? And What Congregations Can Do
- The River Just Kept Running
- Neighborhood Partners to End Gun Violence
- A Safe Way to be Different Together
- Communal Life in the Public World
- King’s Death an Easter Challenge
- Chapel with Marilyn
- That We May All Be One
- Ministry in the Encounter
- The Zuma Era
- If You Have More, Will I Have Less?
- Going Too Far…Or Not Deep Enough?
- Category: Collaborative Leadership
- “Of Course!” Reflections on the Installation of Elizabeth Eaton
- Towards Full Partnership: The Election of Elizabeth Eaton as Presiding Bishop of the ELCA
- God Doesn’t Say, “See You Next Fall”
- Humor is a Funny Thing. Or Not.
- Holy Week Words from President Obama’s Speech in Jerusalem
- Who Becomes Pope Matters to the Rest of Us
- “Just Me,” Just a Few, Can Begin to Make a Difference
- Between Caucus Night and Epiphany
- I’m Not Afraid of Nancy Pelosi
- The Leadership of Collaboration
- At 7:15 EST on Christmas Eve Morning
- What Type of Conflict Is It?
- Public Demonstration in Spain
- Global Consultation
- Category: Connections to News of the Public World
- “Senseless” Violence
- Is Competition Part of Creation or Part of the Fall?
- How Do We Turn Worry and Resignation Into Caring Enough to Change?
- One Teacher, One Book, One Pen, Can Change the World
- Pentecost, Power and the Invisible War
- Dignity? Violence? What Images Do We Have of Ourselves?
- What Have You Been Talking About?
- Is Haiti A Lost Cause?
- Accompaniment! Ben Larson dies with the people of Haiti
- Chronic Illness: Globally and Personally
- Tithing is Big News
- Poverty Issues at G-20 Summit
- A Life of Love and Advocacy: Eunice Kennedy Shriver
- Two Reminders of Responsible Service
- A Sister of Sotomayor Speaks
- Questions RE: “Populist Rage”
- Category: Creating Trustworthy Learning Environments
- Iowa Caucuses in the Snow
- The Seasons Change: Control and Climate Change
- LIVING IN COMMUNITY WITH OUR ABILITIES AND DISABILITIES
- Grades and Vocation
- It’s Not That I Don’t Like Children’s Sermons…
- Candles and Cucumber Sandwiches
- Robins in the Lilac Bush
- Community College Address
- Out of Sight, Out of Mind?
- Global Responses to Obama Presidency
- Category: Educational Ministry and Models
- Category: Gender Issues Today
- Category: Liberating Justice
- Category: Ltheran Theology and Ecclesiology
- Category: Lutheran Theology and Ecclesiology
- Category: Ministry in Daily Life
- Category: Power and Partnership
- Category: Re-membering the Body of Christ
- Category: Teaching and Learning Community
- Category: The Paradox of Pluralism
- Category: The Priesthood of All Believers
- Category: Vocation as Rooted in Christian Liberty