Stories, reflections and perspectives from diverse range of voices across the ELCA.
Series editor’s note: Throughout 2024 “Deeper understandings” will feature teaching scholars of the ELCA reflecting on the many ways that Lutheran theology makes a difference for our daily lives. —Kristin Johnston Largen, president…
Top-ranked Pokémon Trading Card Game player; co-host, Pokémon: Trainer Tour; YouTuber and streamer Trinity Lutheran Church, Kent, Ohio I got involved at Trinity Lutheran as COVID-19 restrictions were beginning to…
Aerospace engineer Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, Millersville, Md. We have been attending Christ Lutheran for roughly 18 years. After moving to Maryland we did a bit of church shopping in…
Series editor’s note: Throughout 2024 “Deeper understandings” will feature teaching scholars of the ELCA reflecting on the many ways that Lutheran theology makes a difference for our daily lives. —Kristin Johnston Largen, president…
Service to others has always been integral to Sam Swenson-Reinhold’s worldview. “I’m a double pastor’s kid, so I’m a unique breed in that way,” he said. With two ELCA pastors…
“If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. … Face it, friend. He is crazy about you!” —Max Lucado, minister and author For nearly 40 years, as…
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Kristin Johnston Largen, president of Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa, shares about the impact of theologian Jürgen Moltmann on her own spiritual outlook. Moltmann, a professor of systematic theology at…
Series editor’s note: Throughout 2024, “Deeper understandings” will feature teaching scholars of the ELCA reflecting on the many ways that Lutheran theology makes a difference for our daily lives. —Kristin Johnston Largen,…
Member, Order of Lutheran Franciscans; registered nurse; family nurse practitioner; epidemiologist St. Paul Lutheran Community of Faith, Denver As a young adult, I left the conservative denomination I grew up…
June is Pride Month! We are excited to affirm and embrace everyone in the church and to amplify the voices of our ELCA siblings in the LGBTQIA+ community. Today we…
Editor’s note: This post was originally published on the ELCA Racial Justice blog on June 19, 2020. Juneteenth commemorates a day when my ancestors could breath a little more freely. On June…
I was 4 years old when I saw my first horror movie. My parents loved to go to the movies, and this was the 1980s, when Freddie Kreuger, Michael Myers…
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