Build a wall. Welcome all. Deport 11 million immigrants living illegally in America. Create a path to citizenship for those who are undocumented. In the United States, presidential campaigns increase…
Five years ago this summer seven Lutherans who had never met face-to-face serendipitously walked into the constituting meeting for the Order of Lutheran Franciscans (OLF) unsure of whether the order…
Hope is a simple four-letter word that packs unbelievable punch in the Christian life. Unfortunately, hope gets disguised beneath plenty of realities that deserve to go by the name of…
Here we are, in the season after Pentecost that we sometimes refer to simply as “ordinary time.” It’s a long season, welcomed by the long days of summer. We might…
The phone rang just as Eve, an ELCA seminary student, arrived home from a run. It was her weekend as chaplain-on-call for the hospice facility and a family had requested…
You in us are bruised and broken: hear us as we seek release from the pain of earlier living; set us free and grant us peace. “God, When Human Bonds…
During this wedding season we’re often reminded that 40 to 50 percent of first marriages will fail because some couples prepared endlessly for their wedding day but weren’t ready for…
In several neighborhoods of Minnesota and Northwest Washington, Lutherans this week placed outside their homes, and on church lawns, signs wishing Muslim neighbors a blessed Ramadan. Ramadan is the ninth…
How do we make it abundantly clear that children are welcome in worship? This is the question Andrea Roske-Metcalfe, a pastor of Grace Lutheran Church, Apple Valley, Minn., posed when…
My son, Seth, graduated from high school a few days ago. Harry Chapin’s “Cat’s in the Cradle” keeps popping up in my head every time I pause to catch my…
“I’m a Lutheran” is a monthly profile featuring ELCA members around the world. The profiles showcase ELCA members in all their diversity, connecting one another through individual faith stories as…
The ELCA Reformation Anniversary Grant Program, from the Thrivent Financial Foundation Reformation Anniversary Grant, has awarded 19 grants to assist with 500th anniversary observances. Support has gone to those who…
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