Joy Mortensen-Wiebe, Madison, Wis., was reelected May 16 to serve a second six-year term as bishop of the South-Central Synod of Wisconsin of the ELCA. The election took place during the…
Amy Current, Mount Vernon, Iowa, was reelected May 15 to serve a second six-year term as bishop of the Southeastern Iowa Synod of the ELCA. The election took place during…
If you happen to walk through the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) campus on a Tuesday evening, you might see a long line of students snaking around the…
Community leaders, clergy and public officials gathered March 14 at Christ Lutheran Church of Staten Island, N.Y., to officially launch the Salam Radio Station, the first Arabic Christian ecumenical online…
Vicki Michela Garlock was making her way through her morning read of Religion News Service when she came across a story about a man who earned a Guinness World Records…
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on the ELCA Advocacy blog. What is at stake in the electoral process? For Lutherans, our response is not exclusively individualistic. The electoral process…
Editor’s note: In this second installment of a three-part Living Lutheran series, Deanna Kim Bassett, an ELCA pastor, reflects on her family’s experience of Japanese American incarceration—and what those stories…
Today we are sharing a few prompts to encourage you during your personal spiritual time. We hope this collection will inspire you to be kind to yourself and others as…
In downtown Phoenix, where glass high-rises and new developments have replaced what was once a low-income corridor, a different kind of congregation gathers. This congregation is shaped less by brick…
For those of us who are suckers for a road movie, the charm of a classic hero-on-a-righteous-path story is endlessly alluring. The lead character walks off their past, confronts their…
Focal verse “Thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it a chaos;…
In 1941, shortly after Gail Kiyomura’s father was 18 years old—fresh out of high school, the eldest child in his family and, by every measure he understood, fully American. Within…
In a church that proclaims God’s care for people’s bodies, minds and spirits, tending to mental health is not separate from faith—it’s part of how we live it out. Yet…
One of the most important dimensions of aging is to bring us to understand that life cannot be taken for granted. Life cannot be devoured—it can only be savored (Joan Chittister,…
How can faith and science move beyond conflict and into meaningful conversation? This was the question ELCA pastors Will Rose and Thomas Johnston were pondering when they created the podcast…
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