ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton has issued a Labor Day message on the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic “has revealed the heroics and faithfulness of the many we now know…
Amy Odgren, Walker, Minn., was elected Aug. 29 to serve a six-year term as bishop of the Northeastern Minnesota Synod of the ELCA. The election took place during an online…
With the start of the school year for colleges and universities throughout the nation comes the new faces that will be arriving on campus, virtually or otherwise. Some of those…
Joy Mortensen-Wiebe, Kewaskum, Wis., was elected Aug. 29 to serve a six-year term as bishop of the ELCA South-Central Synod of Wisconsin. The election took place during an online synod…
Like so many other ministry concerns of the ELCA, care for creation has been dealt a blow by COVID-19. Images of clearing skies over the world’s cities have awakened people…
Tessa Moon Leiseth, Moorhead, Minn., was elected Aug. 16 to serve a six-year term as bishop of the Eastern North Dakota Synod of the ELCA. The election took place during…
Brandon and Sarah Bowers run Bowers Farm in Pomaria, S.C., on land that has been in his family since 1938. Though it’s surrounded by a farming community, Bowers Farm stands…
Amy Current, Dubuque, Iowa, was elected Aug. 7 to serve a six-year term as bishop of the Southeastern Iowa Synod of the ELCA. The election took place during an online…
This year marks the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s treatise The Freedom of a Christian. To observe this milestone, Elizabeth A. Eaton, presiding bishop of the ELCA, invited the church to…
The ELCA has worked with Lutheran World Relief to repurpose $160,000 in project funding for emergency responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America, Africa and Asia. In Latin America,…
Virginia S. Aebischer, Columbia, S.C., was elected July 25 to serve a six-year term as bishop of the South Carolina Synod of the ELCA. The election took place during an…
Craig A. Schweitzer was elected July 17 to serve a six-year term as bishop of the ELCA Western North Dakota Synod. The election took place during an online synod assembly….
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