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Tell us: How do friendships enhance your life?
Friends can make us laugh, know the right things to say when we are going through a tough time – and even finish our sentences for us! Friends look out for us and have our best interests at heart. For an upcoming issue of Gather magazine, we will feature a story about...
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Help create a safer world for kids. Did you know that the number of children and teens killed by gunfire in the United States increased 50 percent between 2019 and 2021, and that gun violence became the leading cause of death for U.S. children and teens in 2020? The...
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Spring 2026: “I AM: God’s holy name and promise” video supplement 2
Watch the video.(April) Session two—Gate and shepherd: Guiding and protecting us (John 10)Session two builds on the theme of God’s abiding love as we explore another dimension of I AM, God’s holy name and promise: God’s guidance and protection. Guidance and protection...
December 2025: “Practicing Advent imagination: Matthew’s dreamers and Isaiah’s visions” by the Rev. Sara Olson-Smith
Download Advent devotional. We cannot build a new future that we cannot imagine. The long nights of Advent gift us with time to dream. This study will offer us ways of imagining God’s future for us and all creation through the dreams of Joseph, the Three Wise Men and...
We lament.
A response from Women of the ELCA about the ongoing situation in Minneapolis “You will keep them in perfect peace whose mind is set on you.” (Isaiah 26:3) Peace be to you in these difficult times, so that through you peace may grow and expand. The U.S. Conference of...