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Our guests know that resurrection defies logic. That is why they come sidling through our doors—every one of them comes hoping for it.

These Gospel stories can seem so familiar. But sit with the disciples in the little wooden boat, and Jesus' power will render you speechless.

Our hunger is for words that evoke our deepest emotions, that name the wilderness in which we live—but not alone.

Since 2000, nearly 500,000 ELCA members have left to form two new bodies. These churches are organizing themselves along new patterns.

A growing number of UMC clergy are performing same-sex weddings in open defiance of the Book of Discipline. What happens next?

This is a document drafted by Michael Breininger, senior pastor of Richland Center Fellowship in Wisconsin, in his capacity as president of the Richland County Ministerial Association; it was adopted by the RCMA. Read more about the RCMA and the friendship between Breininger and Five Points Lutheran Church pastor Larry Engel in Debra Bendis's article "No Longer Strangers."

In a caravan of 45 people, mostly mothers looking for their disappeared children, Santos del Socorro Rojas was one of the lucky ones.

A runner is stranded on base, in a far country, unable to get home on his own. The batter bunts, aiming to obey the manager.

Seeing has fooled me into thinking I have a clear view of where the road leads.

Part church, part support network for families, Salvage Garden strives to create a space where all are welcome.

Here in Minnesota, Lent is an almost unbearably slow wait.

Betsy had always worked across interfaith lines. She didn’t expect there would be any problems with her message in the congregation.

Transformation for Betsy, her congregants, and others will likely occur through encounters with members of the Muslim community. As a leader, Betsy can cultivate these encounters.

“I wanted to create a different kind of preacher—someone who would be in opposition to what would be normal in a small town like that.”

When Larry Engel thanked Mike Breininger for running a productive meeting, Breininger was startled: "I don't recall a liberal pastor ever complimenting me."

In local churches, brewing clubs have formed for fun and fellowship. They’re also extending a deep tradition of hospitality to non-Christians.

"The church is not a building," says the song. Yet most churches have walls, a basement, and decades of accumulated accoutrements.

After the funeral, I was ready to help the boy's family find a church home closer to where they lived. Instead, they stayed with us.