In this lively and engaging new history, Granquist brings to light not only the institutions that Lutherans founded and sustained but the people that lived with

This book gives today's Lutherans a sense of heritage, identity and continuity, a sense of self-understanding. Readers will see themselves as part of a family.

Lenny Duncan is the unlikeliest of pastors. Formerly incarcerated, he is now a black preacher in the whitest denomination in the United States: the Evangelical

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.