Editor’s note: This story continues “A rich and varied history” (January 2019). In the first decades of the 20th century, African Americans faced grinding poverty and harsh racial restrictions. Many African…
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…
For children and families Families Celebrate Advent & Christmas 2020-2021 The 2020-2021 edition of Families Celebrate Advent & Christmas cards spans the four weeks of Advent and the 12 days…
Focal verse Praise the Lord! O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever. —Psalm 106:1 Reflection I heard the stomping of feet…
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…
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…
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…
On June 29, 2018, I stood in front of 30,000 young people and confessed a heavy burden: I’m a recovering self-injurer. It’s not the first time I’d spoken those words,…
One Sunday in 2017, Alex Hoffner, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Tullahoma, Tenn., pulled aside then-15-year-old Colin Shuran after a worship service with a suggestion for a potential movie…
Health authorities note with concern that mental illness appears to be a growing problem among youth and young adults, but stigma, shame and lack of awareness may deter people from…
Grace Hoening, like most 2020 high school seniors, ended her secondary education career in an unprecedented way: isolated from her peers, missing out on a “normal” graduation ceremony and trying…
Deprived by the COVID-19 pandemic of their cap-and-gown traditions—the proud and stately walk to “Pomp and Circumstance,” the calling of the graduate’s name, the stroll across the stage to receive…
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