Service and Saints: Women Clergy: Shout Out!
Posted: July 20, 2020By Sue Sprang SYNOD – Part 2 of this series poses two questions to our synod’s women clergy, as part of the 50th anniversary of the ordination of women in the […]
Read more →The Call: Women Clergy: Shout Out!
Posted: July 14, 2020By Sue Sprang SYNOD – Featured: Pastor Julie Schneider-Thomas, Zion, Comstock Park, and Hope, Rockford; Pastor Nicole (Nikki) Smith, Lutheran Church of the Savior, Kalamazoo; Pastor Betsy Kamphuis, St. Paul, Greenville, and interim, Settlement, Gowen; Pastor […]
Read more →Introduction: Women Clergy: Shout Out!
Posted: July 6, 2020By Sue Sprang SYNOD – My recollection of the first time I was asked what I wanted to be when I grew up was when I was in the first […]
Read more →During This Time: Pastor Jennifer Michael
Posted: June 29, 2020By Sue Sprang SYNOD – With the COVID-19 situation hitting us like a brick – quickly and with no time to duck out of its way – I’ve wondered about our […]
Read more →During This Time: Pastor Rachel Laughlin
Posted: June 22, 2020By Sue Sprang SYNOD – With the COVID-19 situation hitting us like a brick – quickly and with no time to duck out of its way – I’ve wondered about our […]
Read more →Campus Ministry + Isolation = A creative challenge
Posted: May 5, 2020By Sue Sprang SYNOD – For many of us, campus ministry is one of those things that is on the fringe. Unless we’re involved with or connected to it in […]
Read more →Ramping Up to Meet the Need
Posted: April 27, 2020By Sue Sprang GLADWIN – Once it became clear that the current COVID-19 epidemic was going to be a situation with critical ramifications, the Gladwin-Beaverton County Food Distribution group took […]
Read more →The Communication-Mission Connection
Posted: April 1, 2020By Sue Sprang SYNOD – In today’s world, it is imperative that congregations use the web/social media to their advantage. With paper communication giving way to more electronic and technical […]
Read more →Meanwhile…during the virus…
Posted:By Sue Sprang SYNOD – As COVID-19 blankets us and we move through uncharted territory, the people of God take example from the early Christians and find ways to share […]
Read more →Bonhoeffer, Jesus, and an Island
Posted: March 9, 2020By Sue Sprang This is one of the two hardest articles I can remember having to write. The first was when, as a newspaper reporter, I covered my first story […]
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