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These priorities and outcomes come from MN Coalition for the Homeless, Central’s partner, which organizes Homeless Day on the Hill.
For people of faith, this raises a deeper spiritual question: are we giving AI something like godlike power, allowing it to judge, predict, and direct human lives in ways we do not fully understand?
As volunteers in the Free Store, we are blessed every day by seeing a child smile at a new toy, a woman grateful to find clothes for her growing children, a man in need of job interview clothes, and a man looking for a pair of comfortable shoes.
On May 5, we recognize the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW). We raise up this issue because Indigenous women are at such great risk of experiencing violence and being murdered.
Are you addicted to burning fossil fuels? If so, you are not alone. Oil and gas are highly addictive, cause climate change, and contribute to the destruction of our planet. Learn what we can do to break our habit and help save our world.
The Fine Arts Ministry Team decided this Lent to pull art from our own collection to put on a display for all the people who enter our building. Under the theme of Lent, “Common Elements of Home,” we thought it would be good to highlight the art that gives us a vision of The Last Supper.
Weekly reflections from the preaching pastor.
It’s Pentecost weekend, the weekend we celebrate the birth of the Christian church on Earth. As Martin Luther would say, “What does this mean?”
One of my favorite scripture study tools of all time is to look at the verbs. Verbs are underestimated in a culture that is very focused on what we think and how our mind is the most important part of who we are.
If you are curious, we are at about day thirty-five out of the fifty for this season. The longer season gives us the chance to reflect on the death and new life of Jesus. We listen for the promises in the Gospel lesson
It’s Confirmation weekend at Central. Eight students will stand before the congregation on Sunday and claim the promises made at their baptisms as their own. As a reminder, those promises include things like living among God’s faithful people, hearing the word of God
My guess is that few of us know anyone who actually works as a shepherd. The closest we may know of “shepherding people” are friends or relatives who work and make their living in rural farming communities. Not unlike the shepherds of the Bible
Whether you have been a devout recycler for many decades, or the conversation about the climate crisis is new to you, we can say that in Genesis, God is pretty clear with humans as to what our role in the rest of the creation is to be.
