Pastoring the purple
Living Faithfully

Pastoring the purple

When you pull into the church parking lot on a Sunday morning, you see remnants of the scuffle on the car bumpers: “I’m With Her” alongside “Make America Great Again,”…
Climate change: Alaskan village tries to preserve its culture
Living Faithfully

Climate change: Alaskan village tries to preserve its culture

The idea that climate change is a political issue or a matter of debate makes no sense, said Thomas Richter, pastor of Shishmaref Lutheran, the only congregation in the Alaskan…
Hope, dignity and love
Living Faithfully

Hope, dignity and love

The four “grandmas” playing pinochle grinned when Elson Daniels ran to their card table. Seated in a cozy living room overlooking a snow-covered courtyard in Billings, Mont., they greeted the…
Reformation 500: 50 Reformation artworks
Theology & Beliefs

Reformation 500: 50 Reformation artworks

As we commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Living Lutheran is exploring 500 of its unique aspects, continuing our series this month with 50 Reformation works of art. This…
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Theology & Beliefs

Reformation stories: ‘Katie Luther’ visits on Bold Women’s Sunday

Editor’s note: Throughout 2017, we’re highlighting reader submissions of ways they’re observing the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. Submit your story by sending 300 words or less, plus photos, to livinglutheran@elca.org,…
Her-stories: Bishop Jessica Crist
Theology & Beliefs

Her-stories: Bishop Jessica Crist

Editor’s note: This story is a part of The Lutheran World Federation’s Her-stories global Lutheran storytelling project. If you have a story of how women have reformed the church or…
Just like us
Mission & Ministry

Just like us

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Fayetteville, Ark., was helping resettle its first five refugee families from Iraq, the Congo and El Salvador when the White House executive order banning refugees…
Campus ministry 101
Mission & Ministry

Campus ministry 101

Jon B. Olson, pastor of Lutheran Campus Ministry at Minnesota State University, Moorhead. Tia Mathre-Adams, director of Lutheran Campus Ministry for San Antonio area colleges and universities. Becca Seely, director…
Church in rural America
Mission & Ministry

Church in rural America

As she was on her way to her first worship service of the morning, Jess Felici, a pastor of Mountain Lutheran Parish, received a phone call from a member saying…
Shishmaref: Called to care
Mission & Ministry

Shishmaref: Called to care

Shishmaref, Alaska, has taken center stage as its residents fight to preserve their way of life as changes in their environment and landscape attributed to climate change pose threats. “The…
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Theology & Beliefs

Ordinary artifacts from an extraordinary movement

I looked into the glass case, my eyes inches away from notes Martin Luther wrote the night before he answered the pope and emperor at Worms. Just behind me was…
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Living Faithfully

A legacy of care

Standing 6 feet 3 inches tall—2 inches shorter than his grandfather—Christopher Heller towers over frail, elderly worshipers in wheelchairs attending Sunday service at Lutheran Care Center, a skilled nursing home…