Bishop Gafkjen’s February Newsletter Has Arrived

January 24, 2017|Comments Off on Bishop Gafkjen’s February Newsletter Has Arrived

Cross-Marked and Spirit-Sealed Children of God "Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?" Romans 6:3 In mid-January I experienced a distinct pleasure [...]

Bishop Gafkjen’s December Newsletter

November 27, 2016|Comments Off on Bishop Gafkjen’s December Newsletter

You shall be called, “Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.” Isaiah 62:6-12 is one of the suggested readings for Christmas Day. There are no shepherds in Isaiah’s proclamation, no star, no angels or magi, no [...]

HKBP Companion Church Seminary Library Project

November 9, 2016|Comments Off on HKBP Companion Church Seminary Library Project

More than a year ago, the I-K Synod began work with Augsburg Fortress and the Theological Book Network to provide desperately needed books for the library of the theological seminary ("STT") of the HKBP, our [...]

Webcasts with Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton

October 27, 2016|Comments Off on Webcasts with Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton

Ecumenical witness and the Reformation anniversary webcast It's not too late to revisit the webcast!  Join Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton for the webcast that explored ecumenical and interreligious witness on the eve of the Reformation [...]

Bishop Gafkjen’s November Newsletter Has Arrived

October 27, 2016|Comments Off on Bishop Gafkjen’s November Newsletter Has Arrived

Give us this day our daily bread. The Lord's Prayer, 4th Petition, Small Catechism   AJ Jacobs, a self-professed agnostic who is not sure he believes in God, spent a year of his life living as [...]

Bishop Gafkjen’s October Newsletter Has Arrived

September 21, 2016|Comments Off on Bishop Gafkjen’s October Newsletter Has Arrived

Rummage Sale Season “The Right Reverend Mark Dyer, an Anglican bishop known for his wit as well as his wisdom, famously observes from time to time that the only way to understand what is currently [...]