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Grateful for the journey

Editor’s note: This year the ELCA celebrates 50 years of Lutheran women’s ordination in the United States, 40 years of the ordination of Lutheran women of color and 10 years…

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Ministry for the whole person

It was the last session of a retreat with high school youth. We sat still together in the chapel, which was nestled in the beautiful landscape that many have come…

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Sermons are made, not begotten

When the preacher takes the pulpit during any given liturgy, what do they stand upon? This is the question Jon Meyer Ericson attempts to analyze and answer in his book…

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A tale of two pandemics

Editor’s note: COVID-19 has uniquely impacted communities of color and their lives and ministries. In this series, we will feature ELCA Racial Justice reflections from each of the ELCA Ethnic…

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A towering figure in civil rights

Among the white ministers of Montgomery, Ala., Robert Graetz was nearly alone in supporting the legendary 1955 bus boycott that would integrate the city’s public transit system. Now 92 and…

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I’m a Lutheran: Kate Hanmer Elkins

Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, Atlanta Early childhood professional—preschool director and teacher I believe God is love abounding in depth and width far beyond the capacity of our human minds….

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A mosaic of identities, one loving God

Editor’s note: This year the ELCA celebrates 50 years of Lutheran women’s ordination in the United States, 40 years of the ordination of Lutheran women of color, and 10 years…

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Mouth house

When Jesus looked at his disciples on that famous afternoon so many years ago, nearing Caesarea Philippi, he didn’t ask them, “What are you thinking about me these days?” His…

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How Noah Hepler found “reawakening” in Queer Eye

When Noah Hepler, pastor of Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Atonement in Philadelphia, was nominated by a member of his congregation council to be a featured “hero” on the Netflix…

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A love story

Series editor’s note: Throughout 2020, “Deeper understandings” will engage the ELCA’s commitment to authentic diversity. Kwame Pitts will continue on this theme in the next issue. —Kathryn A. Kleinhans, dean of Trinity…

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My faith journey: The spirituality of grandparenting

“But take care and watch yourselves closely, so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days…

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Generation to generation

Editor’s note: Living Lutheran facilitated this dialogue between father-son duo Martin, 52, and Seth, 21, Zimmann. What follows is an edited version of that exchange. What have you taught each…