Stories of God’s people putting their faith into tangible action in their communities.
I love just about everything to do with retreats: getting away, laughing, storytelling, being outside, campfires, Bible study, deep sharing, exploring and sharing food. I’m always up for going on…
The wide, flat and winding paths through northern Nicaragua look like well-traveled roads for four-wheel-drive vehicles. But upon closer inspection, they’re not paths at all—they’re dried up riverbeds. The Tecomapa…
The four “grandmas” playing pinochle grinned when Elson Daniels ran to their card table. Seated in a cozy living room overlooking a snow-covered courtyard in Billings, Mont., they greeted the…
Shishmaref is a fishing village in Alaska that is on an island only 3 miles long and a quarter-mile wide in the Chuckchi Sea, just north of the Bering Strait….
The statement below was released by the National Council of Churches, of which the ELCA is a member. Christ is Risen from the dead! Trampling down death by death, And upon…
In honor of Earth Day on April 22, Living Lutheran is featuring a weekly series of blogs exploring different facets of caring for creation throughout the month of April. In…
U.S. joint Reformation observance held In observance of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the ELCA Conference of Bishops’ Ecumenical and Inter-Religious Committee and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’…
ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth A. Eaton joined more than 100 Lutheran leaders, ELCA members and international partners in Washington, D.C., March 27-29 for the 2017 Advocacy Convening. The gathering, organized…
ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth A. Eaton met with refugees in Chicago March 21 during a visit to RefugeeOne, an affiliate partner of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. RefugeeOne is the…
Standing 6 feet 3 inches tall—2 inches shorter than his grandfather—Christopher Heller towers over frail, elderly worshipers in wheelchairs attending Sunday service at Lutheran Care Center, a skilled nursing home…
More than 7 million people in South Sudan need humanitarian assistance as a result of drought and renewed violence. According to UNICEF, famine was recently declared in the north-central part of the…
There are so many things that are hard to talk about with children. Their questions never end, no matter how hard we try to put them off. And sometimes our…
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