Seattle Maritime Academy student, Girl Scouts of the USA Gold Award recipient Immanuel Lutheran Church, Seattle I graduated high school this year, but I had been involved in youth group…
Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on the ELCA Racial Justice blog in observance of the International Day for People of African Descent (IDPAD) on August 31. This year’s IDPAD…
Series editor’s note: Throughout 2024 “Deeper understandings” will feature teaching scholars of the ELCA reflecting on the many ways that Lutheran theology makes a difference for our daily lives. —Kristin Johnston Largen, president…
When Vivian Dávila was in seminary, a professor told her: “Whenever you get up in that pulpit, whenever you go do some new ministry, and your knees aren’t shaking, stop—you…
Top-ranked Pokémon Trading Card Game player; co-host, Pokémon: Trainer Tour; YouTuber and streamer Trinity Lutheran Church, Kent, Ohio I got involved at Trinity Lutheran as COVID-19 restrictions were beginning to…
As he enters the office of bishop of the Northwest Synod of Wisconsin, Martin Halom sees a changing church in a changing world. But, he said, “leadership may be evolving…
Editor’s note: Last month 16,000 young Lutherans came to New Orleans for the 2024 ELCA Youth Gathering. From July 16 to 20, Mass Gathering services were held nightly at the…
Timothy Graham didn’t plan on becoming a bishop. “I knew my name would be lifted up, but I didn’t have any expectations,” said Graham, who serves as a pastor of…
Decades before “teams” were popular in the workplace, a highly unusual one comprising three co-pastors was going strong at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Olympia, Wash. Between 1977…
Aerospace engineer Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, Millersville, Md. We have been attending Christ Lutheran for roughly 18 years. After moving to Maryland we did a bit of church shopping in…
David Schaeffer’s book Letters from Sweden (Mercer University Press, 2023) isn’t an ordinary love story. For one thing, it’s told mainly in letters, most of them written by the author’s…
Series editor’s note: Throughout 2024 “Deeper understandings” will feature teaching scholars of the ELCA reflecting on the many ways that Lutheran theology makes a difference for our daily lives. —Kristin Johnston Largen, president…
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