More than 450 students at Augsburg College, Minneapolis, participated in City Service Day this year, an opportunity to go off campus to complete service projects in city neighborhoods. First-year students…
Celebrated composer Robert Hobby had reached a point where he wasn’t accepting commissions for new music. Instead, he was choosing to spend more time with his family and to concentrate…
As families fleeing violence, hunger, poverty and lack of security continue to arrive in Europe, the world is witnessing the most severe refugee crisis since World War II, according to…
In her first trip to Madagascar, ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth A. Eaton visits with teachers at a school for deaf students in Antananarivo, Madagascar. She also met with Rakota Endor…
Pope Francis announced in September revisions to the Roman Catholic Church’s marriage annulment process. The new rules eliminate an automatic review of any “decree of nullity” by a second panel…
Take a look at Amazon’s best-seller list and you might be surprised to find adult coloring books in the mix. While adult coloring is mostly being marketed as a balm…
The first three episodes of Luther, the first-ever animated series capturing the life and work of Martin Luther, premiered in late August to an audience of 140 in Wittenberg, Germany….
Following the shooting at Umpqua Community College where a gunman killed nine people and injured seven others, Faith Lutheran Church, Roseburg, Ore., held a vigil Oct. 1. At presstime, Jane…
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service hosted the Walk of Courage Award Gala Oct. 28 at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. The event celebrated the journeys of people newly…
Amneh Jafari , a native of Fort Worth, Texas, never expected to help spark an international movement. But when the senior psychology major at the University of Texas at Arlington…
The ELCA reached a milestone this fall by raising $15 million through the ELCA Malaria Campaign. Since the start of the campaign five years ago, ELCA members and others have…
When throngs of the faithful gathered in Washington, D.C., for the papal mass Sept. 23 during Pope Francis’ U.S. visit, an ELCA organist was one of the participants. Joy-Leilani Garbutt…
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