Lent blog series: As goes Jesus, so goes love
Voices of Faith

Lent blog series: As goes Jesus, so goes love

When I was a little girl, a beloved Sunday school teacher gave me a small ivory cross with the words “John 3:16” etched on one side and the entirety of…
ELCA presiding bishop issues International Women’s Day letter
Theology & Beliefs

ELCA presiding bishop issues International Women’s Day letter

Editor’s note: In observance of International Women’s Day, the Rev. Elizabeth A. Eaton, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), has issued the following pastoral letter. Dear…
Signs of welcome
Mission & Ministry

Signs of welcome

As a child, Angela Koterwski would recite her bedtime prayers by mimicking her mother. It was the only time she would pray. While she shadowed her mother’s gestures, the little…
Her-stories: Rev. Laura Ingersol
Theology & Beliefs

Her-stories: Rev. Laura Ingersol

Editor’s note: This story is a part of The Lutheran World Federation’s Her-stories global Lutheran storytelling project. If you have a story of how women have reformed the church or…
Engaging body, mind and soul in worship
Living Faithfully

Engaging body, mind and soul in worship

How do we engage our whole selves in worship? Martin Billmeier, pastor of St. Lucas Lutheran Church, Toledo, Ohio, reflected on this question in a meditation last Lent, asserting he…
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Voices of Faith

Losing faith • finding it

Some years ago, just before Christmas, I was sitting and enjoying conversation with a staff member one minute, then lying on the ground the next, completely unaware that my body…
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Theology & Beliefs

Reformation stories: Martin Luther as old-time radio star

Editor’s note: Throughout 2017, we’re highlighting reader submissions of ways they’re observing the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. Submit your story by sending 300 words or less, plus photos, to livinglutheran@elca.org,…
ELCA presiding bishop signs ecumenical declaration supporting refugees
Living Faithfully

ELCA presiding bishop signs ecumenical declaration supporting refugees

ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth A. Eaton has added her signature to a national ecumenical declaration in support of refugees. The statement, issued by Church World Service and the National Council…
Grounded in grace
Voices of Faith

Grounded in grace

“All we had to eat was red Jell-O, flour and communion wafers,” she remembered, her eyes gazing into the past. A fundraiser for the ELCA’s global ministries, I was out…
Beautiful dust
Voices of Faith

Beautiful dust

You make beautiful things out of the dust / You make beautiful things out of us —Gungor. My dad knew the beauty of dust. Even before he was sick and…
Deeper understandings: To what end?
Voices of Faith

Deeper understandings: To what end?

Since the dawn of time, humans have asked these age-old questions: Who are we? Why are we here? In what can we hope? The Scriptures, as well as Christian theology,…