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Grace Matters

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Grace Matters is the weekly radio ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, hosted by the Rev. Peter W. Marty.


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God in the Reclamation Business
(Originally Aired May 15, 2005.) Forsaken city neighborhoods are not every pastor’s dream location for starting a church. But when you believe, like Pastor Wayne Gordon does, that God loves to reclaim forgotten people and worn-down neighborhoods, you’ve got all the inspiration you need....

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[ Mon, 20 April 2009 00:00:01 GMT ]


Easter Sunday Broadcast.
Hallelujah! He is risen. Jesus lives and resurrection hope beckons. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay....

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[ Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:01 GMT ]


Dark Despair, Bright Hope.
Host Peter Marty joined by Kathleen Norris. Ms. Norris is the award-winning poet, writer, and author of The New York Times bestsellers The Cloister Walk, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, and The Virgin of Bennington. Exploring the spiritual life, her work is at once intimate and historical, rich in poetry and meditations, brimming with exasperation and reverence, deeply grounded in both nature and spirit, sometimes funny, and often provocative....

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[ Mon, 6 Apr 2009 00:00:01 GMT ]


Music Intended for the Soul
There is no venue where Jonathan Rundman hasn't performed. Church basements, convention halls, coffee shops, college auditoriums, and church sanctuaries have all formed the backdrop for this talented singer and songwriter. Rundman is well known in the Christian community for his sound theology, his biblical depth, and his creative melodies. A brief taste of his character and life, as this broadcast includes, explains why Rundman is one for the faithful to know....

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[ Mon, 29 Mar 2009 00:00:01 GMT ]


Love Down to the Bone
The subject of love never gets old, at least for Christian people who want to probe the endless depths of divine love. Sondra Wheeler, professor of Christian Ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., has authored a book entitled What We Were Made For: Christian Reflections on Love. She joins this broadcast to explore the staying quality of God’s love, and the vulnerability that is required to love well...

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[ Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:01 GMT ]


Everybody Sharing Everything
National Public Radio's broad listenership knows the name Tom Gjelten well. It is synonymous with reporting that is honest, insightful, and full of integrity. For more than 20 years Gjelten has been a foreign correspondent for NPR, serving in many of the world's most dangerous hot spots. To his work he brings faith and humility. He understands his life less as a profession and more as a calling. Truly one of radio's greats!...

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[ Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:00:01 GMT ]


The Staying Power of Focus
Allan Tibbels, host Peter Marty calls him an "urban renewal enthusiast". Tibbels and his all-White family moved into a thoroughly African American neighborhood on Baltimore’s west side. There he embarked with others on an ambitious effort to reverse the run-down image of "Sandtown," and to face the crime, poverty, and vacant housing problems head on. Tibbels literally rolled into Sandtown two decades ago on a wheelchair. His faith, courage, and resolve just keep onrolling....

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[ Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:01 GMT ]


Loneliness
The Native American community is often lost from our immediate consciousness. Don Johnson has an insider’s vantage point that we need to hear. This chaplain to Native American communities is also executive director of the Lutheran Association of Missionaries and Pilots U.S. He joins the program to talk about many facets of life for Native peoples, including a spiritual loneliness....

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[ Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:01 GMT ]


A Hard Look at Poverty for Women
Christine Grumm is president and CEO of the Women's Funding Network, more than 130 organizations devoted to assisting women around the globe. She is a change agent who goes after critical areas of need from combating poverty to achieving advances in health care, education and human rights. ...

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[ Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:01 GMT ]


God's Forever Promises to Abraham
In a world fractured by religious wars, Abraham could be something of a unifying figure. Twelve million Jews, at least 1 billion Muslims, and 2 billion Christians position the roots of their faith around his name. So who was Abraham? What were God’s promises to Abraham all about? Old Testament scholar Terry Fretheim is special guest on this edition of Grace Matters....

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[ Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:01 GMT ]


God's Forever Promises to Abraham
In a world fractured by religious wars, Abraham could be something of a unifying figure. Twelve million Jews, at least 1 billion Muslims, and 2 billion Christians position the roots of their faith around his name. So who was Abraham? What were God’s promises to Abraham all about? Old Testament scholar Terry Fretheim is special guest on this edition of Grace Matters....

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[ Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:01 GMT ]


Finding Release From Hatred
It is not uncommon to hear divorced couples speaking admirably of their children's resilience in coping with their own separate lives. Whether it is overconfidence, guilt, or a desire to believe that one's own kids are exceptional in this regard. Author Elizabeth Marquardt calls much of it "happy talk"– talk that denies the very painful consequences that go with every divorce. Host Peter Marty reflects on the spiritual side of this pain....

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[ Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:01 GMT ]


Finding Release From Hatred
Wayne Messmer has quite a story to tell. This professional singer and broadcaster was shot at point blank range in the throat one night during a bungled robbery attempt. His vocal cords survived, as did his life and spirit. Through an amazing act of courage and faith, Messmer later found his way to the prison where his assailant was doing time. What happened there is a testimony to the dissolution of hate when one understands life as a supreme gift of God....

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[ Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:01 GMT ]


The Perplexity of Choice
Most people will admit that we live in an age when a barrage of choices keep assaulting our lives. Bombarded by choice, we are forced continually to reevaluate our identities. We repeatedly must remember or figure out exactly who we are. Living in this confounded way rarely feels good. It fragments and divides up our lives. Catherine Wallace, a social historian and free-lance writer, joins this edition of Grace Matters to wrestle with the perplexity of choice in our modern world....

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[ Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:01 GMT ]


Your Relationship With Money
It is a strange phenomenon to equate happiness with having money, especially since having more money (at least beyond a certain point) rarely makes people more happy. Jacob Needleman has a philosopher's mind for thinking about the subject of money. Here is a program that gets to the heart of our relationship with money....

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[ Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:01 GMT ]


A Refugee Named Jesus
Ralston Deffenbaugh is a first-rate lawyer who understands the intricacies of immigration law. But more importantly, for the past 17 years, he has been president of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, a vantage point for getting inside the hopes and heartaches of refugees and immigrants around the world. In these times of contentious debate over how to handle immigration reform in America, Deffenbaugh has some wise and faith-inspired words to think about with special freshness about the su...

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[ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:01 GMT ]


The Christmas Star
According to St. Matthew, the magi from the east were guided to the manger of the Christ Child by a star. That star, or whatever bright light may have appeared in the sky to guide these ancient astrologers, has fascinated believers and scientists alike for 20 centuries. David Levy, a lifelong astronomer, comet discoverer, and admirer of the night sky joins this broadcast for some pondering about the much talked about Christmas Star....

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[ Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:00:01 GMT ]


A Conversation with Benedict of Nursia
For this final edition of a four-part Advent series with great saints of the church, host Peter Marty visits with St. Benedict (c. 480-c.547). Known for his famous “Rule,” a Rule that still guides Benedictine followers today with its teachings on humility, silence, and obedience, Benedict zeroes in on the holy reading of Scripture for this Grace Matters program. He spells out the critical value of hearing Scripture not only with our intellects but also with our hearts....

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[ Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:01 GMT ]


A Conversation with Juliana of Norwich
Juliana of Norwich, who is sometimes called Julian of Norwich (1342-c.1416), joins host Peter Marty for an imaginary conversation. Juliana possessed an unshakable belief in God despite several near-death experiences. Her profound insights on hope were gained from the conviction that one can never know true hope apart from suffering. Juliana’s faith is a testimony to the abundance of grace even in the most difficult periods of life....

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[ Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:01 GMT ]


A Conversation with Hildegard of Bingen
In the second of a four-part Advent series, host Peter Marty converses with another absentee guest - Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179). Our other Advent guests are now saints of the Church. In this weeks conversation, Hildegard of Bingen shares her vantage point of faith and her medieval life as an outspoken woman. She was an individual who mixed with popes and emperors, went on preaching tours and even authored a medical encyclopedia....

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[ Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:01 GMT ]


Meditation A Conversation with Maximilian Kolbe
In the first of a four-part Advent series, host Peter Marty converses with different guests who could not be present for an interview. Each week, the conversation involves one of the great saints of the church. Maximilian Kolbe is this weeks guest. He is the Polish priest who voluntarily took the place of another prisoner at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp when Nazi commanders arbitrarily selected ten prisoners for forced starvation....

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[ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:01 GMT ]


The Sayings of Jesus
After spending a life immersed in scholarship with Scripture, Phyllis Tickle determined that faith and humility were often left behind among those who study the words of Jesus. She embarked on a thoughtful journey to analyze the different ways that Jesus of Nazareth typically spoke....

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[ Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:01 GMT ]


A Lesson in Humility
Everett gets to teach about forgiveness, reconciliation and a host of other fascinating subjects. A personally tragic experience the murder of his mother in the mid-1990s caused Worthington to examine forgiveness in a whole new way. What he discovered was a fresh priority for the place of humility in shaping one's life...

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[ Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:01 GMT ]


Responsibility for Your Neighbor
Since her childhood, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend has made a point of trying to put other people first. As the eldest child of Robert and Ethel Kennedy, she assumed an early sense of responsibility for what it means to be civically engaged on behalf of those for whom the systems of justice do not work well. One-time lieutenant governor of Maryland, Kennedy Townsend has a marvelous way of letting her Christian faith inform her commitment to stand up for all....

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[ Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:01 GMT ]


Avoiding an Itsy Bitsy Life
The life of a refugee is never easy. Fleeing persecution or life-threatening circumstances in ones own country to find a home elsewhere is next to impossible. Post 9/11 jitters and restrictions in America make the U.S. even less open to immigrants and refugees. Along comes Stormey Denise Burroughs, a young single mother and social worker in Michigan. She takes it upon herself to become the loving foster mother to four teenage boys from Burma....

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[ Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:01 GMT ]


The Congruent Life
Deere and Co., a global giant in agriculture, forestry and construction. Deeres CEO, Bob Lane, is the mover and shaker behind much of this companys global expansion. But for all of the airplane miles Lane travels, he is still a very grounded individual. His Christian faith is what keeps him grounded. It is a faith that centers on cultivating the fruits of the Spirit and appreciating the undeserved character of grace....

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[ Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:01 GMT ]


Honesty and Chronic Illness
To live with chronic illness is to live with the reality that one day can be good and fulfilling while the next may be excruciatingly painful. Physical suffering is not fun for anyone. Among the more valuable tools in the equipment box is honesty. Retired professor Stephen Schmidt is guest on this edition of Grace Matters to discuss faith and his journey with chronic illness. It is a journey whose high points have been marked by honesty....

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[ Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:01 GMT ]


Concern For Broken Things
Craig Rennebohm is a chaplain who works the streets of Seattle, ministering to mentally ill people. Many of them are homeless. Rennebohm knows what he is doing. He has firsthand knowledge of chronic mental illness and a commitment to advocate for the welfare of those whose minds do not function as they would wish. In this edition of Grace Matters, host Peter W. Marty explores his own up-close experience with a mentally ill brother, and what it means to trust in a Lord....

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[ Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:01 GMT ]


Practice. Practice. Practice.
Within 24 hours of the Nickle Mines, PA., shooting that killed five Amish girls in October 2006, the whole world knew of the tragedy. What captivated the most public attention, was the amazing capacity of the Amish people to forgive the killer and serve his family. Donald Kraybill, co-author of the book Amish Grace, joins this edition of Grace Matters to explain how honest forgiveness of the Christ-like variety can only be forged over a lifetime of practice....

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[ Mon, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:01 GMT ]


Just Doing My Job
Brad and Libby Birky are owners of an extraordinary restaurant in downtown Denver - SAME Caf. There are no prices on the menu; there is no cash register. Patrons pay whatever they can or are willing to pay, even if the payment means an hour of kitchen labor washing dishes or cutting vegetables. For those curious about a venture created So that All Gods people May Eat, this edition of Grace Matters is a "Do Not Miss."...

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[ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT ]

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