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Our Eyes in the Age of the Algorithm
Algorithms feed us what they think we want to consume. What are we inadvertently telling them that we are hungry for?
Mary Henrichs
October 8, 2026
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Lutherans Still Making Impact in New Orleans—and Beyond—Five Years after Katrina
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by Paula Schlueter Ross It’s been five years since the Aug. 29, 2005, landfall of Hurricane Katrina. And today–even with ...
Am I Willing to Take a Stand?
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by Rev. Ken Lampe It’s popular today to talk about being spiritual but not religious. Some people want to be ...
A Sleeping-Mat Ministry: Bringing Comfort to the Homeless
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by Sandy Wood From Chicago to Ghana and in between, a ministry carrying Christ’s love and a cushioned place to ...
A Mother’s Touch; a Mother’s Heart
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by Cindy Steinbeck Newkirk Barbara Amelia Matthes wrote an incredible memoir of her life journey before she died. My mind’s ...
Lutherans? Reformed? A Thumbnail History
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by Dr. Albert B. Collver In John 17:11, Jesus prayed to His Father that the Church “may be one, even as ...
Distance Education Fosters Ministry to Hmong People
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by Sandy Wood Dr. Lang Yang’s story highlights how a flexible, non-traditional route to ordination is expanding the ethnic diversity ...


