This Lent, ELCA World Hunger released 40 Days of Giving — a challenge for all ELCA members and congregations to “encourage giving spiritually, intellectually and financially” (with a $2 million goal) by Easter. The challenge was issued as part of the ELCA’s five-year comprehensive campaign, Always Being Made New: The Campaign for the ELCA, which in 2016 is focusing on hunger and poverty alleviation. Sign up for a daily Lenten email devotion at www.ELCA.org/40days.
Movie-watching as a spiritual discipline
Much of Jeffrey Overstreet’s professional life has centered on cinema, from his extensive film writing—including as critic for Christianity Today—to the courses he teaches at Seattle Pacific University. But film…