Who would have guessed that on a Saturday in March (last Saturday, to be exact), 250 people from 77 congregations in 4 or 5 states would gather in Tomahawk, Wisconsin for an all day conference named “High Tech/High Touch: Tools for Meangingful Ministry?”
Sponsored by the resource centers for the ELCA’s East Central Synod [...]

What fun I had yesterday!
A bit over a year ago, I was asked to put “keynote speaker at the Northern Illinois Synod Congregational Resourcing Event” on my calendar. I really didn’t have much of a sense of what the gathering would be about, but I said, “yes.” My [...]

For the past several years, as I have traveled around the church speaking to various groups, I always refer to Augsburg Fortress as the “ministry of publishing for the ELCA and the larger Christian community.” It is an important distinction, I think, as opposed to how AF is often referred to as “the publishing [...]