The Newberry College Department of Nursing has received a $500 donation from the Miriam Circle Women of the ELCA at Mt. Horeb Lutheran Church, Chapin, SC. Dr. Jenny Lindler, Directory of Nursing, and Dr. Jerry Alewine, Dean of the department, accepted the check from...
I was on a health care mission in Southern Highlands of Tanzania, Africa. A make shift dental operatory had been set up for me consisting of a chair borrowed from local villagers and a benched carved out of a tree. A sugarcane fence had been constructed to keep the...
By Arthur Suggs Almost 6 months ago I had a chance encounter with a homeless gentleman in Brevard North Carolina. At the time I was on a short family vacation staying in a house that was in a very hilly section of North Carolina. On the first morning of our...
By Stephen Abbott “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” (John 13:34-35) It was toward the end of May...
This reflection is a cross-published piece, which was originally published on the ELCA Racial Justice Blog on June 6, 2022. By Bishop Virginia S. Aebischer On the evening of June 17, 2015, a white supremacist walked into Mother Emanuel AME Church, sat down and joined...
Since 1986 and for the past thirty-six years, Resurrection Lutheran Church in Cameron, South Carolina has supported the Lutheran Southern Theological Seminary and its students with an annual unrestricted scholarship. At a recent Sunday morning worship service,...
