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February 2009 – Soul Friends
             Link Extras:
                   Anam Cara: Soul Friend – Pr. Anne Deneen (full text)

                    Obama inauguration – Reflections

·         Jen Anderson, Holy Cross, Kennebunk, Maine

·         Pr. Angela Freeman, First, Malden, Mass.

·         Pr. Jim Hazelwood, St. Andrew, Charlestown, R.I. (full text w/photo)

·         Pr. Tom Maehl, First, Waltham, Mass.

·         Pr. Joel Neubauer, Christ, Middletown, Conn. (full text)

·         Ruth Nunnally, Our Saviour’s, Dorchester, Mass.

·         Jana Vrlik, St. Paul, Arlington, Mass. (w/photo)       

Obama inauguration – Sermons

·         Pr. Joel Neubauer, Christ, Middletown, Conn.

·         Pr. Paul Sinnott, St. Paul, Torrington, Conn.

·         Pr. Susan Thomas, Our Savior, Hanover, N.H

November 2008 -- The Spiritual Discipline of Simplicity
             Link Extras:
                     Bastian American citizen at last (Krajcik)
                     Hammonasset 2008 (the logistics)

August 2008 -- Prayer as listening
             Link Extras:
                     LSS seeks help for refugees               

May 2008 -- The Greening of the New England Synod
             Link Extras:
                     Green honor roll
                     Green Resoures (ways to care for creation
                     The Greening of LSS
                     Congregations (what others already are doing)
                     Synod's 'green guru' (meet Pr. Nancy Wright)
                     Healing God's creation (reflection by Pr. Nancy Wright)

February 2008 -- Incline Your Ear (Listening during Lent)
             Link Extras:
                 Llamas join cast of live Christmas pageant at Faith, North Windham, Maine
                      God had a plan for campus pastor (Pr. Gladys G. Moore)


November/December 2007 -- Listen
             Link Extras:
                     Brattleboro teen cares for children in Rwanda
                     Connecticut woman donates hair to Locks of Love
                     Emanuel, Manchester, Conn., receives Deaconess grant
                     LIPY youth sponsor dinner dance for LSS clients
                     Pr. Roger Imhoff reflects on Dr. Diane Levy Jacobson
                     Paper cranes and peace at Messiah, Amherst, N.H.
                     Review of Living Lutheran:Renewing Your Congregation by Pr. Dave Buehler

August 2007 -- Global Mission
            Link Extras:
                     An explosion of community service (St. Andrew, Charlestown, R.I.)
                     International camp counselors at Calumet
                     Play ball!  Boston Metro Conference midsummer classic

May 2007 -- Art and Faith
        Link Extras:
                     Bishop Younan at Yale by Laura Olsen
                     Celebrating the arts at Nativity, North Conway, NH
                     Episcopal / Lutheran partnership in Western Massachusetts (full text)
                     Lutheran Campus Ministry turns 100:
                                  1) Reflection by C. Mae Waugh (Puerto Rico and Kenya)
                                   2) Resources to celebrate campus ministry's anniversary
                     Sister art (full text)
                    

"Joined in Christ and 'Linked' together as Lutherans, we grow in the power of the gospel as we work together. This new periodical is a tool that will help us to keep one another in mind, to learn from one another, to pray for one another and to stay connected so that we can give glory to God."

Bishop Margaret G. Payne
March 2002