(There are some spoilers for the film The Banshees of Inisherin ahead.) Colm Doherty cares about important things. A lifelong resident of the fictional Irish island Inisherin, Colm has spent his…
Throughout her time as ELCA director for gender justice and women’s empowerment, Mary J. Streufert has heard from many people hungry for expansive, inclusive language and images of God. She…
The Wit of Martin Luther You’ve sung his hymns and read the Small Catechism, but delving into Martin Luther’s sense of humor may be a new idea. The Wit of…
Sonja Hagander has led interreligious programs in a variety of settings around the world, including educational travel experiences for professors, clergy and laity. She is also active in local and…
Karen Thalacker’s family has a long history with the German Lutheran Orphans’ and Old Folks’ Home, commonly called the Homes, in rural Muscatine, Iowa. From 1921 to 1941 her great-grandfather,…
Based in Eau Claire, Wis., Americana band Them Coulee Boys have toured with such celebrated acts as Los Lobos and Trampled by Turtles, won the Wisconsin Area Music Industry’s Bluegrass/Americana…
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…
Tamika Jancewicz and Laura Kigweba James started the podcast For Collard Girls as a sacred space for women of color in ministry to feel affirmed and cared for. Launched in 2017,…
For children and families Looking for Jesus: A Manna and Mercy Easter Board Book Calling all fans of ELCA pastor Daniel Erlander’s books and resources: Look no further than Looking…
Michael Plekon served for 40 years as a minister in both the Western and Eastern churches, initially as an ELCA pastor and later as a priest in the Orthodox Church…
Eric Krewson wrote most of his band’s new album while living in a 6-by-6-foot shack in the Cascade Mountains in fall 2019. The frontman and lead songwriter of the Philadelphia…
For the first 30 minutes of Mass, nothing much happens. Sitting in the nondescript basement of a Midwestern church, two couples—Jay and Gail (Jason Isaacs and Martha Plimpton) and Richard…
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