When I looked at the DNA origins section on Ancestry.com, I found a history of life in southern Norway, where my paternal Nelson-Jensen...

Although I am no longer Lutheran, it is still very much part of my DNA and those of Norwegian descent. So, I was astonished when I...

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I am Norwegian! I am Lutheran! No apologies! No compromise! The two were always inseparable. I don’t know whether it was more traumatic...

When I talked with my mother about her Lutheran church heritage, it was much different from mine and what I found in Norway. Her changed...