16+ hour, 28+ min ago   (206+ words) by Susan Barreto | Sep 13, 2026 | Covalence Monthly The societal impact of artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving, creating an urgent need for broad, thoughtful discussion. That is one of the central messages emerging from a new ELCA paper and the wider conversation…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (785+ words) We often project later experiences back into history, consciously or unconsciously assuming an inevitability to what finally occurred. However, history is complex and, what now seems inevitable, did not always look that way in the past. The distribution of forms…...

2+ day, 45+ min ago   (538+ words) As a Christian for almost 30 years, prayer has been a discipline I've had to perfect. For many years, I prayed superficially, hiding my deep emotions from God. But as I matured, I quickly realized that God knew all my feelings…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (558+ words) My assumptions about sex and gender became impossible to reconcile with church teachings. But I had never seriously considered that my personal views could be wrong...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (652+ words) “Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.” L Ron Hubbard Yesterday, I received a bunch of documents from members of a PCA church who want to go forward with their experience of abuse via the…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (34+ words) The Lutheran Church of the Ascension brought together people with their own personal connections to 9/11. The Lutheran Church of the Ascension brought together people with their own personal connections to 9/11....

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (716+ words) By David Schultz September 11, 2026 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told the National Baptist Convention this week that she is “amazed watching how God works” while discussing the advance of progressive politics. The New York Democrat presented left-wing organizing in heavily Republican states…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1258+ words) Karl and Debbie Dortzbach, who both turn 77 this week, spent 20 years in Africa fighting AIDS and building peace. Sitting alone in a tepee-like shelter made from sticks collected by a dry African riverbed in 1974, 24-year-old Debbie Dortzbach stitched the words…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (301+ words) 'I remember my son saving his allowance for months to be able to attend a Turning Point USA convention'...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (748+ words) Corporate worship humanizes our enemies. When I was doing research for my doctoral dissertation, I came across brief accounts from the Trinity Lutheran Church choir director, Bernice Rising, who recalled singing “In the Garden” and “Have Thine Own Way, Lord…...