Parent conversations: What is our goal as parents?
“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing,” wrote Stephen Covey in his best-selling book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Yet...
Parent conversations: How do we teach our kids to value all people?
We can’t all raise our children in New York City like Tim and Amanda Bourman or serve as foster parents for a diverse group of children like Brenda and Steven...
Please explain: How do we know that Jesus rose from the dead?
For many centuries, culture approached knowing truth through reason. The idea was that if we could just sit with each other and reason together, we would without...
Parent conversations: What should we teach our children about the Reformation?
There are times when things are so engrained in our life that we take them for granted and struggle to even explain them. I think being a Lutheran can be like that—especially...
Moments with missionaries: Timothy Bourman
“Never forget.” That is the slogan that you can find scrawled all over our city. Usually the names of those lost in the 9/11 attacks are written right next...