1,200 Crosses
Download LifeDate Summer 2023 by Emma VanTol Arms full, Bulldogs 4 Life members walked to the center of the Concordia University Nebraska campus carrying 1,200 crosses to be placed along
Responding to Death with LIFE and LOVE
Download LifeDate Summer 2023 by Michelle Bauman, Director of Y4Life Planned Parenthood, the leading provider of abortions in America, recently released its annual report to the public. Despite dismal media
Suffering, Sin, and Salvation: Viewing Disability through the Incarnation
Download LifeDate Summer 2023 by Pastor Christian Schultz “At the heart of Christian belief lies a suffering, crucified God.”1 This assertion by the Lutheran ethicist, Gilbert Meilaender, puts human suffering,
The Forgotten Life
Download LifeDate Summer 2023 by Pastor Michael Schmidt “Putting mom in the nursing home was the best thing we ever did. She’s eating better, they handle all of her medicine,
How to Honor a Life
Download LifeDate Summer 2023 by Rosalind Stanley “Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent” (Psalm 71:9) Communion comes
A Tale of Two Mugs
Download LifeDate Summer 2023 by Diane Albers, President of National Lutherans For Life It all began with the gift of a mug from my friend inscribed with these words: Today’s
Save the Family Trees
Download LifeDate Summer 2023 by Pastor Michael Salemink Pastor Salemink delivered these remarks April 29, 2023, at the annual March on the Arch in St. Louis, Missouri. In a moment
Our Adoption Sculpture
Download LifeDate Summer 2023 by Pastor Leon and Terri Rosenthal In our home we commissioned a sculpture of adoption. Terri and I adopted Nathan in 1986 and Anna in 1988.
Who Is My Neighbor?
Download LifeDate Summer 2023 by Dr. Donna Harrison Love: self-giving, self-effacing, scary. Our journey to love is tortuous. Parents, siblings, friends, spouse, children—all calling us to more self-giving, more forgiving,
A Race without Competition
Download LifeDate Summer 2023 by Pastor Michael Salemink Father Abraham had many sons. Daughters, too. I am one of them and so are you. Race has no basis in science.