Reflections through a Lens of Faith from Pastor Jen
A long time ago, the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America), changed its understanding of what it means to be a missionary. Some people think that the role of ELCA missionaries is to convert people to Christianity. It isn’t. Rather, the ELCA understands mission work to be work of service we do in accompaniment with […]
A few weeks ago, I decided to try out a ukulele meetup in Somerville. I’m not very good at the ukulele. (I’m really only confident with one chord.) But I’d like to be good at the ukulele, so I went to the event. I didn’t know anyone else who was going to be there. I
Boris and Penka Ivanoska are Russian immigrants who moved to town in the early 1990’s after the fall of the Soviet Union. They came to the US to seek new opportunities and for health reasons. They live with their son and daughter-in-law and three school-aged grandsons. Boris and Penka had professional careers in the Soviet
The ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) has been in the mainstream news media this week…and not in a good way. [i] Last summer, members of the ELCA rejoiced as the Reverend Megan Rohrer was called as bishop of the Sierra Pacific Synod which includes nearly 200 congregations in the central and northern California and
When I lived outside of DC, food trucks were a glorious find. At lunch time they’d be lined up along the street near busy workplaces and you could find anything – anything – you could think of! There was the taco truck, the Hawaiian truck, the kabob truck, the pita truck, and more. Matching the