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His family bought the wooden loom for his grandfather when Jim Case was 5 or 6 years old. His grandpa had emphysema. Back then, one of the treatments for the disease was to periodically place people in isolation. Since the Case family couldn’t go to…
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I recently returned from a week with St. Paul people in the Dominican Republic. On the last day there, our trip coordinator, Heather, took us out to a little sandbar just off the coast. The excursion gave us a chance to relax after a week of work, an…
Near Fourth and Iowa streets in Davenport, at the lunch hour on Wednesday, 50 people stood bundled up in the chill of the January sun and prayed. Many of them Catholic sisters from area orders, they gathered at the site of one of two dozen billboards…
Each person expresses and experiences love in different ways – does the way you express love get the message across? Derek Ball, a marriage and family therapist, will lead a two-part discussion on The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman, Jan. 31 and…
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This week, I was on the phone with my sister pondering the most effective way to work through a formidable to-do list. We all have our to-do lists, things that are important, things that have to get done, and have to get done in the right order. They…
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Most of us probably do not keep our homes in immaculate condition seven days a week. If you’re like me, picking up all of the clutter, recycling junk mail, and having every dish washed and put away isn’t always a priority. It becomes a priority if s…
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Hope Yates, a first-year student at Iowa State University, will be pulling an all-nighter on Friday night. Hope is a dedicated student, but this staying-up-all-night event will not be to study for a big test or finish a paper. She will be putting on…
Texting, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, Twitch. The digital channels for kids (and adults) are many – the identity choices are, too. A new St. Paul faith milestone event this year for sixth-graders and their parents, Digital Identit…
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Last month, I happened to read an article in the Wall Street Journal detailing the life and work of a cobbler named James Fucile. At 83 years old and with nearly sixty years in the business, James finally decided to retire and close down his shoe rep…
Chicago, Illinois – The board of directors of The Christian Century, the flagship journal of Protestant thinking in America, has named Pastor Peter W. Marty as publisher. Marty’s role will be to advance the vision and financial strength of the public…
The topic of the afternoon was fostering excellence in pastoral ministry. Five students – Karyn Kost, Steven Gallego, Anders Nilsen, Kevin OBryan, and Daniel Heim – gathered with Pastor Peter Marty in the Luther Loft earlier this week, thinking throu…
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My 3-year-old daughter loves to play hide and seek. The thing that makes this particularly fun for all of us is that she is terrible at it. The game usually goes like this – I’ll start counting and she’ll run to a corner of our house and curl up in a…