In a May 18 letter, bishops of the ELCA urged congressional leaders to support the transfer of funds to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to cover debt owed…
The ELCA has issued a statement on the May 14 shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., in which a white supremacist gunman killed 10 people. “Our hearts grieve for those who have…
Artist. Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Crestview Hills-Lakeside Park, Ky. There has never been a time in my life when I wasn’t talking to Jesus every day. I was reared…
William J. Gohl Jr. was reelected May 12 to serve a second six-year term as bishop of the Delaware-Maryland Synod of the ELCA. The election took place during the synod assembly…
In the world’s northernmost settlement of Longyearbyen, Norway, in the Svalbard archipelago, Siv Limstrand serves as pastor of Svalbard Church—a congregation in the Church of Norway, a Lutheran World Federation…
Elizabeth A. Eaton, presiding bishop of the ELCA, has issued a pastoral message on the U.S. Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion on abortion. “The people of this church and this…
With nearly 9,000 congregations across the United States and in the Caribbean, the ELCA’s ministry encompasses the geographic diversity of the country. For some congregations, their distinct location plays a…
An ELCA school is working to strengthen its ties to a local Indigenous community in an effort to find healing by building relationships. In January and February, California Lutheran University…
Erik Gronberg, Fort Worth, Texas, was reelected April 29 to serve a second six-year term as bishop of the Northern Texas-Northern Louisiana Synod of the ELCA. The election took place during…
Nola was a member of one of my parishes in South Carolina. On any weekday afternoon at her residential care facility, you could press the button for the second floor,…
The Community Church (TCC) is new in the rapidly growing town of Babcock Ranch, Fla. So is everyone else. Home construction in Babcock Ranch, the nation’s first city built to…
Lately I’ve been thinking about what wholeness means. Our congregation (Holy Trinity Lutheran, Minneapolis) recently began worshiping with a new liturgy titled “Sighs Too Deep for Words.” It was developed…
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