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Hello friends! In just about a month, members of our ELCA Disability Ministries team will be headed off to the Rostered Ministers Gathering in Indianapolis. While we’re there, we’ve got the opportunity to facilitate a new workshop that we are calling “Creating the Tapestry of the ‘New Kingdom’ Through the Lens of Disability Theology”, and share information about this ministry in the Interaction Center. During the workshop we will explore how “people with disabilities are the fabric of the ‘new kingdom’ that Jesus envisions in his Sermon on the Mount. Grounded in theopraxis — the intersection of faith and action…

This is a re-post of an article by Rev. Sarah Stadler, originally published in the Northeast Minnesota Synod Enews, covering the the March 7th – 8th gathering of hunger leaders from across Region 3.  On March 7-8, 2025, over 20 people from across Region 3 of the ELCA – Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota – gathered at Camp Onomia for a Hunger & Justice Leaders Retreat under the theme Making All Things New.  The group built relationships, discerned how God is calling hunger and justice leaders to better work together in our region to end hunger, and learned how…

Barth is often depicted as a liberal or “neoorthodox” theologian who repudiates the inerrancy of Holy Scripture, which alone anathematizes him for the evangelical. Barth is often presented as an enemy to conservative orthodox Christianity, with his neo-Kantian, reified Hegelianism ripping to shreds any hope of giving the evangelical churches anything wholesome and genuinely biblical to cogitate upon. Barth, in many sectors of the evangelical and Reformed churches, is considered as enemy of the state to the health and well-being of historically orthodox Christianity. Barth is often demonized, caricaturized, and flambéed just at the point that someone moves their lips into…