Placeholder image
Faith in Action

Lutherans in Rose Parade

An ELCA family from Iowa and their late son will be honored in this year’s Rose Parade Jan. 1. Mary and John Jorgensen’s son, Jesse, died in an accident while…

Placeholder image
Faith in Action

Call for climate action

Thousands of Lutherans were among nearly 1.8 million people to sign petitions urging political leaders who attended the December 2015 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris to “take decisive action…

Placeholder image
Faith in Action

A kairos moment

The ELCA Conference of Bishops acknowledged that the denomination is at a “kairos” moment in regards to theological education. In an Oct. 1-6 meeting in Chicago, the bishops considered three…

Placeholder image
Faith in Action

Share your good news

To share the unique stories of its parishioners, WestSide Lutheran, Sioux Falls, S.D., created “WestSide Stories,” online video vignettes of its members sharing their faith and passion for the congregation….

Placeholder image
Faith in Action

Godspeed dedicated

St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, Mamaroneck, N.Y., dedicated a votive ship that hangs from its ceiling. Marvin E. Henk, pastor, had seen many in European churches. Sailors made and gave…

Placeholder image
Faith in Action

ELCA pastor opens U.S. Senate in prayer

Kathryn Pocalyco, pastor of Lutheran Church of Our Saviour, North Chesterfield, Va., opens the U.S. Senate in prayer at the invitation of Virginia Sen. Mark Warner. “I believe prayer orients…

Placeholder image
Faith in Action

LWF to South Korea

Munib A. Younan, president of the Lutheran World Federation and bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, visited South Korea in October for the Lutheran…

Placeholder image
Faith in Action

Earliest draft of KJV

Jeffrey A. Miller, assistant professor of English at Montclair (N.J.) State University, found more than he bargained for while visiting a rare books library at Cambridge (England) University. Miller acquainted…

Placeholder image
Faith in Action

Walk for water

The ELCA World Hunger “Walk for Water” fundraising challenge of $500,000 has been met. “This is critical progress toward ELCA World Hunger’s commitment to helping communities around the world break…

Placeholder image
Faith in Action

New editor for RNS

Jerome Socolovsky was appointed editor-in-chief of Religion News Service by its Board of Managers. Socolovsky is an award-winning journalist with many years of religion reporting and editing experience. He previously…

Placeholder image
Faith in Action

Mandate tested again

More than a year after ruling narrowly that companies with religious objections can’t be forced to pay for employees’ contraceptives, the Supreme Court faced a chorus of cries from religious…