Stories, reflections and perspectives from diverse range of voices across the ELCA.
Editors thought we’d try something different for coverage of the 2015 ELCA Youth Gathering in Detroit. We let photographs tell much of the story over 10 pages in this issue…
Some of the standard ones might not be useful for some people.
If you give more than you pledged, do you get a refund?
Last week, at the end of a rough day, I did what I often do when stressed. I went outside, sat down and picked a strawberry from my garden. I…
This summer finds The Lutheran and others in Strategic Communications of the churchwide organization working to determine how we might better reach ELCA members with news and information that informs…
It was a historic ordination, complete with an “aha” moment.
How would we behave if we truly believed we had been so clothed?
Thomas Jefferson’s words are indelibly etched on our hearts.
Easter is about a lot of things, but it isn’t about predictability.
He was chosen to replace Judas Iscariot among the 12 apostles.
Take a jump into the deep. Pray. Serve. Hold a hand. Trust God.
As winter drags on into another month, the church season of Lent at this time appropriately ushers in a period of self-examination, often through prayer, penance, fasting and the like….
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