Prayer ventures: July 14
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: July 14

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life…

Prayer ventures: July 13
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: July 13

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life…

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Voices of Faith

The poet pastor

Grief drives us to ask for the impossible: for the world to stop for time to stop for answers to every single question for healing without pain for our loved…

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Voices of Faith

It takes a village to raise a pastor

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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Mission & Ministry

Study guide: They bring good news

The ELCA’s evolving effort to serve God’s people has given us two tracks for people set apart—ordained—for lifelong service to God’s people: pastors, who are ministers of “Word and Sacrament,”…

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Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: Feb. 11

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life…

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Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: Feb. 8

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded herefor daily Prayer Venturesfor daily Prayer Ventures. These petitions are offered as a…

ELCA presiding bishop issues pastoral message on death of Herbert Chilstrom
Faith in Action

ELCA presiding bishop issues pastoral message on death of Herbert Chilstrom

ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton has issued a issued a pastoral message on ELCA Presiding Bishop Emeritus Herbert W. Chilstrom, who died at home early this morning. “Bishop Chilstrom was the…

ELCA presiding bishop issues pastoral message on Iran conflict
Faith in Action

ELCA presiding bishop issues pastoral message on Iran conflict

ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton has issued a issued a pastoral message on the current conflict between the United States and Iran. “Our country and Iran need urgently to find ways…

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Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: Dec. 14

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here for daily Prayer Ventures. These petitions are offered as a guide for…

The ministry of administration
Spiritual Resources

The ministry of administration

Responding to a leadership crisis in Corinth, the apostle Paul wrote: “Think of us in this way, as servants of Christ and stewards of God’s mysteries” (1 Corinthians 4:1). A…