ELCA receives Lilly grant to support Compelling Preaching initiative
Faith in Action

ELCA receives Lilly grant to support Compelling Preaching initiative

The ELCA has received a $1 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help establish the ELCA Compelling Preaching: Transformed Listeners Initiative. The goal of the initiative is to cultivate…

Prayer ventures: Oct. 12
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: Oct. 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…

Prayer ventures: Oct. 10
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: Oct. 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…

ELCA Fund for Leaders awards TEEM scholarships
Faith in Action

ELCA Fund for Leaders awards TEEM scholarships

Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the ELCA Fund for Leaders will award 375 scholarships to students attending the seven seminaries of the ELCA for the 2022-2023 academic year. This year the…

A dream come true
Mission & Ministry

A dream come true

“It just seemed like a wild dream.” That’s how Phyllis Anderson felt in the late 1980s when she and her colleagues began imagining a fund that would cover tuition for…

Prayer ventures: Aug. 11
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: Aug. 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…

In memoriam: Marlene Whiterabbit Helgemo, 1947-2022
Faith in Action

In memoriam: Marlene Whiterabbit Helgemo, 1947-2022

Marlene Whiterabbit Helgemo, advocate, community leader and the first Native American woman ordained in the Lutheran church, died July 22. She was 75. Helgemo, a member of the Ho-Chunk Tribe…

Study guide: A dream comes true
Spiritual Resources

Study guide: A dream comes true

Over its 25 years, the ELCA Fund for Leaders has provided money to over 1,100 promising deacon and pastoral candidates so they could attend ELCA seminaries. For many, the Fund…

Prayer ventures: July 16
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: July 16

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: July 6
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: July 6

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…

Pastoral care
Faith in Action

Pastoral care

When an ELCA pastor or deacon is installed, the congregation promises to pray for, help and honor its leader and “in all things strive to live together in the peace…