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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
Prayer ventures: Aug. 15
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: Aug. 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…
Faith in Action
Recycling to serve the neighbor
The football teams start their drills. The marching bands begin marching. And, at about this time every year, college students everywhere begin making their lists: What to bring? Will they…
Spiritual Resources
Celebrating darkness in the story of God
When Beckah Selnick read the July 2020 Living Lutheran column “God’s Beautiful Dark Works”—written by her mother, ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton—it reminded her of a children’s book. “It could…
Prayer Ventures
Prayer ventures: June 30
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: June 25
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: June 20
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…
Voices of Faith
Expanding our capacity to listen
Naomi Mbise knows what it’s like to move between places, spaces and cultures. Mbise grew up in Tanzania but now finds herself on the campus of California Lutheran University, Thousand…
Mission & Ministry
Gen Z and the church
Young people in the church today know what they want from faith-based institutions. If a church offers relationships, mentors, authenticity and political engagement, they’ll stay, often becoming leaders who will…
Mission & Ministry
Youth and mental health
Editor’s note: This piece originally ran on August 23, 2021. Susan Schnelle knows all too well the devastating toll of mental health crises among young people in the United States….
Spiritual Resources
Study guide: Gen Z and the church
Many congregational leaders are concerned that members of “Gen Z”—those born between 1997 and 2012—are dropping out of church life. Though leaders can take consolation knowing that the trend isn’t…
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