The summer before Nate Berkas started high school, he went on a camping trip that would change his life. The lifelong Lutheran was raised as a missionary kid in Madagascar,…
Editor’s note: Synod communicators were asked to share a highlight from their assemblies. What made a difference to participants? What was the most important part of the assembly? Responses received…
My Uncle John died in late March of this year. I miss him very much, and I continue to hold my cousins in prayer as they grieve the loss of…
If we want our children to recognize God at work in their ordinary lives, we need to talk about God in ordinary places. Our church is trying something new this…
Peter Boe, born with the name Volodja Sinegins, was about 7 and his brother was two years younger in 1944 when a woman shouting was all that stood between them…
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…
Some students at the New LIFE School in the South Bronx, N.Y., use razors and scissors in addition to pencils and pens. The 10 students are learning to be barbers,…
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…
“We were infused with the grace of God right away and it carried throughout the day.” Nothing was going right in the neonatal intensive care unit at Arusha (Tanzania) Lutheran…
Editor’s note: Each ELCA Ethnic Specific and Multicultural Ministry has developed a mission strategy unique to its needs and aspirations. In this monthly series, we will feature the presidents of each…
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…
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