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A Young Progressive Christian Reclaims Orthodoxy

February 11, 2015 by Miles Hopgood

Though the ink has barely dried, my excitement over the ELCA’s newly-minted Full Communion agreement with the United Methodist Church took a serious hit in recent days. I grudgingly admit that I cheered this agreement when it was passed and happily returned home, eager to share the Eucharist with my Methodist friends. As someone who […]

Filed Under: Other Ways to Do and Be the Church

The Changing Face of Law and Gospel

February 11, 2015 by Miles Hopgood

As someone who will celebrate his second year as a Lutheran on his first day of Divinity school, I find it hard to look towards the future of the Lutheran church when I am still grasping at its past. I can watch the Lutheran church divide over sexuality without the story of Seminex coming to […]

Filed Under: Seminarian Essay Contest

20.1 Lent 2015

The Catechumenate

19.4: Advent 2014

Communion and Community

19.3: Ordinary Time 2014

Green coffee beans (top left), Nicaraguan red beans (top right), corn (bottom left) and millet, vital Nicaraguan crops, held in women farmers’ hands

Food and Justice

19.2: Pentecost 2014

Latvian Wheat by Dace Kiršpile

Growing Leaders

19.1: Epiphany 2014

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