Series editor’s note: Throughout 2020, “Deeper understandings” will engage the ELCA’s commitment to authentic diversity. Surekha Nelavala will continue on this theme in the next issue. —Kathryn A. Kleinhans, dean…
Maybe you’ve heard of the $27 million Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky. The museum’s central mission is to square the stories in Genesis with the facts of science. For those…
“There but for the grace of God go I.” I’ve heard this uttered and may have even said it myself a time or two. It’s usually said in response to…
Resurrection Lutheran Church, Chicago Pediatric cardiologist, co-director of Narrative Medicine Group at Advocate Children’s Hospital/Advocate Lutheran General Hospital I pray for strength and wisdom to provide kind, competent care for…
Editor’s note: The following address was given by John Thomsen on Oct. 5, 2019, in Blair, Neb., at a rededication ceremony for the Tower of the Four Winds, a memorial…
How does the digital era both help and hinder our spiritual development? How can Lutherans leverage digital technology’s attributes—and respond to its challenges? These were the questions Living Lutheran put…
In February 2013, I received news that my mother had finally passed away. She had been on and off her feeding tube for months; her body simply wouldn’t give up…
I was convinced that new digital tools such as smartphone tablets were having negative effects on our ability to relate meaningfully to one another. Then I got sick. Really sick….
Daniel Alexander Payne was born in 1811 in Charleston, S.C. His parents, London and Martha Payne, were free African Americans who both died before Daniel reached puberty. From a young…
Every story tells us how the storyteller perceives the world. Stories are how we describe the world as we think it is, as we fear it is, as we want…
Read part one. Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood (written and directed by Quentin Tarantino) At first glance, Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood feels like classic Tarantino,…
In 1978, when Edwin Sabuhoro was almost 2, his mother faced an agonizing decision. Exhausted, out of food and hope, and fleeing the maniacal terror of Idi Amin in Uganda,…
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