Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource “Prayer ventures,” which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer…
Editor’s note: The stories of ELCA pastors Mamy Ranaivoson and Joseph Boko are shared by the ELCA Ministries of Diverse Cultures and Communities team. This team works within the ELCA…
On their journeys with Jesus, the first Christians were prepared for their ministries by the master teacher who “taught them as one having authority” (Matthew 7:29). Jesus’ roving band of…
Sitting in her office on the top floor of the Lutheran Center in Chicago, Sue Rothmeyer, a deacon and the secretary of the ELCA, looks out the big windows at…
“I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.” Jesus’ words from John 10:10 are the basis for the approach of FedUp Ministries, an ELCA synod-authorized worshiping community…
The 21st century has brought many changes to churches worldwide, and the ELCA is no exception. As in other mainline denominations, the ELCA is experiencing smaller worship attendances, tighter finances,…
Three years ago, when Sue. J. Briner, bishop of the Southwestern Texas Synod, tasked Keats Miles-Wallace to build a grassroots community for those who identify as LGBTQIA+, the pastor had…
The Lutheran Church in Australia and New Zealand (LCANZ) has ordained its first female pastors. Maria Rudolph was ordained at Concordia College Chapel Highgate in South Australia on Palm Sunday,…
I have served the HKBP California Batak Lutheran Church in Claremont, Calif., for the past eight years. At this time, HKBP California desires to become part of the Pacifica Synod…
Elizabeth A. Eaton, presiding bishop of the ELCA, has issued a pastoral letter on the election of Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. “We of the Evangelical Lutheran Church…
Elizabeth Eaton, presiding bishop of the ELCA, has issued a pastoral message on the death of Pope Francis. “On this Easter Monday, we of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America…
Martin E. Marty, a distinguished church historian and scholar of American religion, a devoted teacher, and a friend and mentor to many, died Feb. 25 in Minneapolis. He was 97….
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