Many believers are naturally curious about death and what comes after. This curiosity often appears in the context of funerals and hospitals, yet it also arises naturally throughout one’s life….
Focal verse “To you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign for you: you will…
The leaders of the ELCA, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, the Anglican Church of Canada and The Episcopal Church have released the Churches Beyond Borders 2023 Advent Cycle of…
Growing up as the child of an ELCA pastor in South Dakota, Gabe Wounded Head experienced life not on a reservation but amid a very white congregation. Now, as a…
I acknowledge the Yup’ik, Inupiaq and St. Lawrence Island Yupik peoples on whose traditional lands I work and live. I also acknowledge the Creator and all Indigenous people of Alaska….
In a triumph of rebirth and renewal, a single Seattle block will soon accommodate not only an ELCA church but homes for dozens of people. Columbia City Church of Hope,…
Editor’s note: This article originally ran Nov. 28, 2019. My mom’s death, in December 2013, took my feet out from under me. I couldn’t imagine a life without her. But…
“God’s work. Our hands.” Sunday is the ELCA’s annual day of service, and this year we celebrated the 10th anniversary! Join New Life Lutheran Church in Bolingbrook, Ill., and Shepherd…
Vine Deloria Jr., who died in 2005, was many things: a historian, a theologian, a political activist and an author whose 1969 book Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian…
On Nov. 16, the North American heads of Churches Beyond Borders met online with their Lutheran and Episcopal counterparts in the Holy Land for a time of solidarity and prayer….
The Church Council of the ELCA appointed Michael Burk as presiding bishop pro tempore after its Executive Committee approved Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton’s request for a four- to six-month leave…
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