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We live in unprecedented times — in the first pandemic in a century — in a time of exceptional scientific achievement — in a time of ultramodern mRNA vaccines that will revolutionize health for all manner of disease — in an age of dramatic change in communication that will alter civilization. The pandemic forced us to do things that we knew we should, but couldn’t bring ourselves to do in normal times. Here is an example. In 2006, I traveled to Honduras to provide medical care and imp...

December 14, 2020 Cheryl Stewart Pero, one of the first Black Luth­eran women to be ordained in the United States, died on October 28 after a short illness and hospitalization. She was 69. In 1980, Pero became the second Black woman ordained in the Lutheran Church in America, a predecessor body of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. She was also the first Black woman to receive a PhD in biblical studies, which she earned at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. She later went on ...