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Lullaby for the King With Lullaby for the King, award-winning poet and author Nikki Grimes has created a read-aloud Christmas story that families will return to again and again for…
Prayer Ventures
Prayer ventures: Dec. 12
Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life…
Prayer Ventures
Prayer ventures: Dec. 11
Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life…
Lectionary Blog
Lectionary blog: Know thyself
Lectionary for Dec. 17, 2023 Third Sunday of Advent Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11; Psalm 126; 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24; John 1:6-8, 19-28 In a Nov. 10 statement, the Patriarchs and the Heads…
Prayer Ventures
Prayer ventures: Dec. 10
Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life…
Prayer Ventures
Prayer ventures: Dec. 9
Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life…
Spiritual Resources
Advent activity: Reflection tree
This week’s Advent activity can be completed with a group or as a solo project. We hope it will help you create a space for reflection, community and celebration as…
Voices of Faith
My take: Pastoral approaches to the end—and the beginning
Many believers are naturally curious about death and what comes after. This curiosity often appears in the context of funerals and hospitals, yet it also arises naturally throughout one’s life….
Prayer Ventures
Prayer ventures: Dec. 8
Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life…
Spiritual Resources
A hymn for Advent: “People, Look East” (ELW, 248)
Today, we pause to contemplate the words of the Advent hymn, “People, Look East” (Evangelical Lutheran Worship, 248; this version is by Marty Haugen). People, look east. The time is…
Spiritual Resources
Sacred transforming work
How can predominately white churches engage in the necessary preparatory work to call ministers of color to lead them? Leaders of color in the ELCA often face discouragement and lack…
Prayer Ventures
Prayer ventures: Dec. 7
Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life…