The ELCA Church Council met electronically April 20. The council serves as the ELCA churchwide organization’s board of directors and interim legislative authority between meetings of a churchwide assembly. The…
Elizabeth A. Eaton, presiding bishop of the ELCA, has announced the launch of the ELCA’s Truth and Healing Movement. The focus of the initiative is to increase the church’s understanding…
As we near the end of Women’s History Month, we would like to feature a few of the women in our church to remind everyone that there are universal and…
As we near the end of Women’s History Month, we would like to feature a few of the women in our church to remind everyone that there are universal and…
As we near the end of Women’s History Month, we would like to feature a few of the women in our church to remind everyone that there are universal and…
As we near the end of Women’s History Month, we would like to feature a few of the women in our church to remind everyone that there are universal and…
Elizabeth A. Eaton, presiding bishop of the ELCA, has issued a statement on anti-LGBTQIA+ bills that have recently been introduced in the United States. “As we approach March 31, many…
The Conference of Bishops of the ELCA met Feb. 28–March 4 at the Eaglewood Resort in Itasca, Ill. The conference, an advisory body of the ELCA, comprises 65 synod bishops,…
Covering the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol with homemade blankets and quilts wasn’t the recent effort of a national quilting organization. Instead they were part of the Homeless Memorial…
I have a photo of me as a baby, lying next to my brother on the couch as he reads to me from a magazine. My eyes are wide open…
Anne Burghardt, general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), visited the United States during the first week of February. Her trip began Feb. 1 at the Lutheran Center in…
One year ago, President Vladimir Putin of Russia ordered the invasion of Ukraine, killing thousands and displacing millions. Lutherans around the world have responded to the crisis with generosity and…
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