Stories about the ways in which the mission and ministries of the ELCA and its partner churches are lived out.
Rahel Mwitula Williams has been appointed executive director for the Innovation unit of the ELCA. Mwitula Williams has served as the ELCA’s interim executive director for Innovation and its director…
The ELCA has received a $1.2 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. through its initiative Hope After the Storm: Capacity Building for Faith-Based Disaster Relief Organizations. The grant will enable…
Yehiel Curry, presiding bishop of the ELCA, has issued his first entry in a new series of monthly messages. Each message will share a pastoral word, rooted in Scripture, that…
This life, therefore, is not godliness but the process of becoming godly, not health but getting well, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not now what…
Yehiel Curry, presiding bishop of the ELCA, has issued a statement about the deadly attack at the Islamic Center of San Diego earlier this week. “In a place devoted to…
Justin Grimm, St. Paul, Minn., was elected May 16 to serve a six-year term as bishop of the Saint Paul Area Synod of the ELCA. The election took place during…
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on the Lutheran Disaster Response (LDR) blog. Nearly two years after Hurricane Helene struck, communities across Georgia are still navigating the long and difficult road…
Joy Mortensen-Wiebe, Madison, Wis., was reelected May 16 to serve a second six-year term as bishop of the South-Central Synod of Wisconsin of the ELCA. The election took place during the…
Amy Current, Mount Vernon, Iowa, was reelected May 15 to serve a second six-year term as bishop of the Southeastern Iowa Synod of the ELCA. The election took place during…
Community leaders, clergy and public officials gathered March 14 at Christ Lutheran Church of Staten Island, N.Y., to officially launch the Salam Radio Station, the first Arabic Christian ecumenical online…
In a church that proclaims God’s care for people’s bodies, minds and spirits, tending to mental health is not separate from faith—it’s part of how we live it out. Yet…
Taryn Montgomery, Duluth, Minn., was elected April 25 to serve a six-year term as bishop of the Northeastern Minnesota Synod of the ELCA. The election took place during the synod…
The ELCA Church Council met electronically on April 16. The council, which serves as the ELCA’s board of directors, took action on a variety of matters. In his report to…
The ELCA Church Council has elected Rachel Wind as the ELCA churchwide organization’s executive for administration, a position whose term coincides with that of the presiding bishop. Wind has served…
When a torrential rainstorm hit the U.N. Climate Negotiations pavilion in Belém, Brazil, last November, one reporter joked that the scene of flooding and pelting rain was “like the apocalyptic…
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