Editor’s note: Lutheran Disaster Response is working with Lutheran Social Services of Northern California and the Sierra Pacific Synod to respond to the destruction caused by the recent Camp Fire. Please consider donating to help deliver…
Editor’s note: Each ELCA Ethnic Specific and Multicultural Ministry has developed a mission strategy unique to its needs and aspirations. In this monthly series, we will feature the presidents of each ELCA Ethnic Specific and…
Editor’s note: This collection of reflections is an online addition to our December 2018 cover story, “Uplifting Christmas gifts.” Ingredients for love Our daughter, Kristen, and her friends spent several growing-up…
Earlier this year, Living Lutheran invited readers and writers to submit personal stories of gifts that illuminated the true meaning of Christmas for them. From a kind note to beloved…
Advent and Christmas are filled with traditions that bring us together and help tell the story of our faith. For many of us, one such tradition is watching popular films…
Jessica Clapp is a multifaceted artist who works out of a studio in downtown Napoleon, Ohio. The 31-year-old loves to draw, and she has been commissioned by a local brewery…
And the cows said, “Moo!” The sheep said, “Baa!” The chickens said, “Cluck!” My daughter, Charlotte, could have chimed in with the cows shouting, “Moo!” But that’s where her animal…
I’m sitting at my neighborhood coffee shop, thousands of miles away from the ostensibly dangerous Central American migrants threatening to cross the U.S. border. Miles, even, from the more murderous…
From the pews of Mwanakwerekwe Lutheran Church, you can see the minaret of the mosque a block away. As Sunday worship wraps up, the noon call to prayer begins. Between…
If you’d asked me a decade ago what grace meant to me, I’m not sure I could have answered. Or I would have said something like “the gifts of God…
Greg Tvrdik fondly recalls playing a magi as a teen in the living nativity at First Lutheran Church, Alexandria, Minn. Now, 25 years later, as the church’s director of church…
First Lutheran Church, Palo Alto, Calif. Retired college professor My faith has been a source of inspiration because I believe God is pleased when people create innovations that make our…
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