Stories, reflections and perspectives from diverse range of voices across the ELCA.
This year we’re putting an emphasis on stories that highlight leadership and leaders from around the ELCA. “I’m a Lutheran leader” is an online feature that highlights the many ways…
They arrived in the fall, still shell-shocked by their tortuous journey from a small Vietnamese village where news of the world, let alone the United States, was practically non-existent. Uoc…
Thank God I am in charge of next to nothing. Mostly I take care of the garden and pets these days (Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway; Random House, 2017). Earl is…
Lutheran Church of the Reformation, Washington, D.C. Photojournalist for Reuters I believe Martin Luther King Jr. was right when he said the arc of history bends toward justice. I feel…
This week’s lectionary readings tell the story of two very different kings who both made poor decisions based on overconfidence that lead to fatal consequences for someone else. The difference…
Q&A with Lutheran author Ellie Roscher, who wrote Play Like a Girl about a girls soccer team and school in Kenya—and how sports, faith, feminism and global missions can work…
I didn’t initially pay much attention when Queer Eye, Netflix’s reboot of the early-2000s Bravo reality series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, started streaming earlier this year. I hadn’t…
For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate (Romans 7:15). A searching and honest friend of mine once said, “You Christians always…
Bartolomé de las Casas (1484-1566) is a good example of what Lutherans call a “saint and sinner.” As an immigrant from Spain who came to Hispañola in 1502, Las Casas…
Many of us are familiar with the miraculous feeding of the 5,000 (John 6:1-15), a story we’ll encounter in worship Sunday, July 29. John’s version of the story occurs after…
“Done properly, parenting is a heroic act.” Edna Mode (voiced by writer-director Brad Bird) serves this reminder to Bob Parr (voiced by Craig T. Nelson) in Incredibles 2 before repeating…
This piece is a reflection from Jay Thorson, pastor of Capitol Drive Lutheran Church in Milwaukee, Wis. As a pastor, there is one moment at the annual synod assembly that…
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