Over the past year my daughter and I have had a fair number of conversations about the sacrament of confirmation. They began when I realized that, for economic reasons, she was not going to attend a ...

800 students representing 12 ELCA congregations from around the area gathered at the Chester Fritz Auditorium Wednesday night for prayer, music, and celebration of their mid-year confirmation classes.

CLEAR LAKE, Iowa (AP) -- Programs to prepare teens for confirmation have come a long way. These days, confirmation candidates are spending less time with their noses buried in textbooks and more time ...