I looked into the glass case, my eyes inches away from notes Martin Luther wrote the night before he answered the pope and emperor at Worms. Just behind me was…
Jesus does two incredible things in John 11. He weeps at death. He calls forth life. Jesus must know, somehow, that he has the power to raise Lazarus to life….
After spending nearly three years in prison for a crime he did not commit, many might expect Koua Fong Lee to be bitter about the way life has treated him….
ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth A. Eaton met with refugees in Chicago March 21 during a visit to RefugeeOne, an affiliate partner of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. RefugeeOne is the…
Standing 6 feet 3 inches tall—2 inches shorter than his grandfather—Christopher Heller towers over frail, elderly worshipers in wheelchairs attending Sunday service at Lutheran Care Center, a skilled nursing home…
Editor’s note: This story is a part of The Lutheran World Federation’s Her-stories global Lutheran storytelling project. If you have a story of how women have reformed the church or…
It is a fundamental conviction of Christians that life as we know it is not all there is—there is more to and beyond our temporal existence. The totality of God’s…
For years, Rick Steves has had his sights on 2017. As the 500th anniversary of the Reformation approached, the travel guide knew he wanted to create for his popular PBS…
More than 7 million people in South Sudan need humanitarian assistance as a result of drought and renewed violence. According to UNICEF, famine was recently declared in the north-central part of the…
John 9 tells the story of Jesus healing a man “blind from birth.” No accident in life caused the blindness, no disease—he had been blind from the womb, unable to…
There are so many things that are hard to talk about with children. Their questions never end, no matter how hard we try to put them off. And sometimes our…
A comprehensive $198 million endeavor, “Always Being Made New: The Campaign for the ELCA” is now in its fourth year and already making a significant impact, both domestically and globally….
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