Series editor’s note: The 2026 theme for “Deeper understandings” is faithful witness in challenging times. This year various authors will explore what it means for the ELCA, and each of…
For ELCA pastor Tom Gehring, life and faith would be incomplete without “songs to dance to that make you feel human.” A chaplain serving people in the Chicago area who…
Editor’s note: ELCA Racial Justice Ministries offers a variety of free resources that are available for digital download on the ELCA website. The next webinar in this series, “Freedom of…
Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource “Prayer ventures,” which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer…
Seventeen years ago, the 2009 Churchwide Assembly adopted the social statement “Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust,” a milestone in the church’s deliberation about sexuality. Then the 2022 Churchwide Assembly authorized…
Not all memories come flooding back because of photographs. Sometimes they can be a song, a word or phrase, or even a smell. For me, it’s barbecue. One whiff and,…
What does it look like when one diverse community gathers to support another diverse community? It might look like Lutherans for Love. A network of nine ELCA congregations in the…
Elected April 25 as bishop of the Northeastern Minnesota Synod, Taryn Montgomery sees the vital importance of churches’ ties to their local communities. Montgomery, who served as synod minister for…
This life, therefore, is not godliness but the process of becoming godly, not health but getting well, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not now what…
Editor’s note: This the final installment of a three-part series of Lutherans reflecting on their families’ experience of Japanese American incarceration. When Stacy D. Kitahata, an ELCA member and third-generation…
When Bimen Limbong began serving in Jeffersontown, Ky., a congregant approached him with a concern: his accent made it difficult to follow his sermons. He didn’t respond defensively. He responded…
Much of Jeffrey Overstreet’s professional life has centered on cinema, from his extensive film writing—including as critic for Christianity Today—to the courses he teaches at Seattle Pacific University. But film…
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