In the days following George Floyd’s murder, the eyes of the world were on the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis. The corner where Floyd was killed…
For years Jeff Crosby searched for ways to articulate the human longings and unanswered yearnings that language often can’t express. In his search he gathered clues from music, cultures, faith…
Spend time reading the Bible and you’ll find an abundance of references to bread. It’s little surprise, then, that the topic captured the attention of Meghan Murphy-Gill, an Episcopal priest…
Kenneth Wheeler was compelled to write his new book US: The Resurrection of American Terror (Precocity Press, 2022) after connecting the trauma he’d experienced under Jim Crow segregation to the rise…
Eric Krewson of the Chairman Dances plays songs from his band’s new album and shares the inspiration behind them in an exclusive interview with Living Lutheran.
Eric Krewson started his band the Chairman Dances just after completing a musicology program in 2010. Around the same time, he was experiencing what he calls a spiritual reawakening, and…
Kendall Vanderslice is a professional baker, the founder of the educational nonprofit the Edible Theology Project and a 2018 James Beard Foundation national scholar. Her new book By Bread Alone:…
When Mark Ellingsen came across both neurobiological research on how racism may be rooted in brain dynamics and evolutionary theory on the importance of cooperation in advancing the human species,…
This review contains spoilers. So many conflicts in modern Christendom and the world at large revolve around the human body and our conduct toward it that one might reasonably look…
Ant-Man doesn’t sweat the small stuff. Even when he’s trapped in a prison cell in the mysterious other world known as the Quantum Realm, staring down his purple-and-green-suited captor, Kang…
In her new book Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman: Public Mystic & Freedom Fighter (Broadleaf Books, 2023), Therese Taylor-Stinson examines an aspect of the iconic Underground Railroad leader that’s…
When Ellie Roscher was 13 years old, she dreamed of becoming a gymnastics star. The night before a big meet, a tumbling accident sent her to the emergency room, a…
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