Tessa Moon Leiseth, Moorhead, Minn., was elected Aug. 16 to serve a six-year term as bishop of the Eastern North Dakota Synod of the ELCA. The election took place during…
Amy Current, Dubuque, Iowa, was elected Aug. 7 to serve a six-year term as bishop of the Southeastern Iowa Synod of the ELCA. The election took place during an online…
Series editor’s note: Throughout 2020, “Deeper understandings” will engage the ELCA’s commitment to authentic diversity. Leila Ortiz will continue on this theme in the next issue. —Kathryn A. Kleinhans, dean of Trinity…
A centuries-old Christian tradition and its powerful celebration of baptism are making a slow but steady comeback in the ELCA. Pastors across the church are infusing their congregations with the…
Lectionary blog for April 19, 2020 Second Sunday of Easter Acts 2:14a, 22-32; Psalm 16; 1 Peter 1:3-9; John 20:19-31 Anyone who has been reading this column for a while…
Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life…
As we anticipate Easter, over 1 million COVID-19 cases have been reported worldwide. We’ve closed nonessential businesses and quarantined ourselves at home. The technical term for this is “sheltering in…
April 12: Lectionary blog Easter Sunday Jeremiah 31:1-6; Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24; Acts 10:34-43; Matthew 28:1-10 I love Resurrection Day in the church! Celebrating the good news that sin and death…
Born in Jerusalem, Rodny Saïd felt called to serve the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL). “I felt my call was specifically to one geographical point…
Gosh, sheriff, I wouldn’t lie to you. He gave us specific directions to locate a parked car that had zero miles on the odometer. Told us the car was for…
A church in the Upper Midwest is enriching itself through the spiritual power of all-community murals, artworks that breathe fresh life into a congregation’s rich tapestry of faith with the…
Each year on the Sunday following Easter, we hear in our Gospel lesson the story of Thomas, “the Twin.” He’s been stuck with the nickname “Doubting Thomas,” yet the point…
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