John Page

  Did you know that you can add Zion’s website to your favorite RSS feed reader?  Our content is updated every week, sometimes multiple times each week.  Your RSS feed reader is a good way to keep up with the latest news and announcements from Zion soon after they are […]

Zion RSS Feeds

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During Advent, we anticipate the coming Christ.  While so many people rush to Christmas in a frenzy of shopping for gifts, people of faith have long appreciated Advent as a time of preparation for the celebration of God’s most gracious gift to us: God’s own presence among us in the […]

Advent at Zion

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The website of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is undergoing some major changes.  Consequently, some of the hyperlinks from Zion’s website to content on the ELCA website are no longer working properly.  Once the changes on the ELCA site are completed, we’ll update the hyperlinks on Zion’s site […]

Broken Hyperlinks

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 When I first read the book of Judges, I marveled that the Israelites kept turning to Baal in a recurring cycle of apostasy, tragedy, repentance, deliverance, and back to apostasy. It was so obvious to me what their problem was, having the benefit of a carefully edited narrative specifically designed […]

Civil Religion vs. Christianity

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It always seems odd to me when I observe people trying to “evangelize” others by quoting Scripture at them.  There’s a presumption that the content of Scripture is recognized by non-Christians as somehow relevant to them.  But why should that be?  Why would people who do not see themselves among […]

American Areopagus

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