Most people are thrilled by the opportunity to have a prepublication price on Evangelical Lutheran Worship pew editions. This core resource for ELCA and ELCIC worship has been five years in the making….a remarkable partnership of people throughout the ELCA and ELCIC! The pew edition (and some of the other items in [...]

To many people, I know that it looks like I have this “church” thing down to an art. Why wouldn’t you think that? After all, I have the privilege of leading a part of the ELCA’s churchwide ministry, Augsburg Fortress, the ministry of publishing. I have the honor and joy [...]

I don’t usually read the cute e-mail jokes, bits of folk wisdom, etc. that get forwarded and forwarded and forwarded. They come into my in-box and I hit “delete.” Since I usually receive a couple of hundred e-mails each day, I simply don’t have time to read them.
But, I must admit [...]