The bishop of the ELCA Northern Texas-Northern Louisiana Synod, Kevin Kanouse, shared a message recently with the synod’s members. Click here to read his letter.
Innovation is in bloom across the rural reaches of the ELCA, and perhaps nothing exemplifies that better than a new food ministry in Iowa. The Western Iowa Synod calls it…
Green Lutheran Disaster Response (LDR) polo shirts could be spotted under blazers as about 70 LDR members from 26 states strode into offices on Capitol Hill to speak with their…
Despite the fact that Lucille “CeCee” Mills preached her first sermon at age 9, she didn’t always plan on pursuing ordained ministry. Like Yehiel Curry, presiding bishop of the ELCA,…
In her 17 years of flying to the coastal village of Kipnuk, Alaska, to serve as its primary care provider, Anne Komulainen had never seen it like this. “The debris…
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