Life Ministries

Plans underway for 2021 life marches

Some things look different this year, but the commitment to life hasn’t changed.

LCMS convention commends and expands mercy work in the Synod

On July 23, Floor Committee 3 passed resolutions commending LCMS Disaster Response and the Synod’s life ministries and encouraging further training to care for those with mental illness.

Lutherans For Life to celebrate 40 years at national conference

Online registration is open for the conference, to be held in St. Louis under the theme “From Age to Age the Same” (Is. 46:3–4).

KFUO Audio: Adoptee shares story after birth mother chose life

Kim Glassman’s birth mother put her up for adoption with a caring family. She shares her life story with KFUO Radio host Kip Allen.

In January’s ‘Lutheran Witness’

In conjunction with the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., this edition previews life-related issues.

KFUO Audio: Miscarriage and coping with loss

Toni Larson, a clinical social worker, and the Rev. Steven Cholak talk with KFUO Radio host Andy Bates about miscarriage and coping with loss.

KFUO Audio: Interview about January 22 March for Life in Washington, D.C.

KFUO Radio host Andy Bates talks with Tracy Quaethem, manager of LCMS Life and Health Ministries, about the March for Life scheduled for Jan. 22, 2016, in Washington, D.C.

KFUO Audio: Interview about January 2016 March for Life events

KFUO Radio host Andy Bates talks with Rev. Christopher Esget, Tracy Quaethem, Stephanie Neugebauer and Rev. Michael Salemink about the upcoming January 2016 March for Life events in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco.

Audio: 2015 Infertility Ethics Symposium

LCMS Life Ministry’s second-annual Infertility Ethics Symposium was held on Nov. 7 at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Ind.

KFUO Audio: Interview with Stephanie Neugebauer, director, LCMS Life and Health Ministries

World Lutheran News Digest host Kip Allen talked with Stephanie Neugebauer, the new director of LCMS Life and Health Ministries, on Oct. 17 on Worldwide KFUO Radio.

Photo gallery: “Let’s Talk Life, Marriage and Religious Liberty”

Members of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod attended the “Let’s Talk Life, Marriage and Religious Liberty” conference on Sept. 8-10 in Washington, D.C.

Photo gallery: Place of Refuge – Milwaukee

A Place of Refuge Ministries of South Wisconsin, which is based in Milwaukee, offers Christian care to women facing crisis pregnancy.

KFUO Audio: Faith’n’Family — Infertility Ethics Symposium on Nov. 7, 2015

KFUO Radio host Andy Bates talked on June 23 with speakers for the upcoming Infertility Ethics Symposium, which will be hosted by LCMS Life Ministry on Saturday, Nov. 7, at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Ind.

Congress has two more LCMS members

The 114th U.S. Congress includes two newly elected Missouri Synod Lutherans, bringing to seven the total number of LCMS Lutherans serving in Congress.

Why Abortion Is Really Declining: The Juno Effect

What we’re witnessing is not an outbreak of Christian morality. Nor is it the sudden, widespread successful use of contraception, as some have claimed. Women are still getting pregnant out-of-wedlock. But unlike in the past, there’s not much stigma attached to being an unmarried mother. It’s what Peggy Drexler at The Huffington Post once dubbed “The Juno Effect,” after the 2008 film about a snarky teen mother who chooses life but adopts her baby to another single mom.

Record number of Lutherans join 2015 March for Life

Forty-two years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on Roe v. Wade legalized abortion, pro-life supporters gather in the nation’s capital for the March for Life.