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God’s work. Our hands.

Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, to him be glory in…

Living Faithfully

Cultivating wonder

Focal verse “Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who delight in them. Full of honor and majesty is his work, and his righteousness endures forever” (Psalm…

Voices of Faith

My take: Holding the center

“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world .… The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.” —W.B. Yeats,…

Living Faithfully

ADLA Assembly meets in Atlanta

The African Descent Lutheran Association may have dispersed from its assembly, but the memories and mission lives on. This year’s assembly, held July 7-9 in Atlanta, focused on the theme…

Mission & Ministry

Inside the commission that could restructure the ELCA

When the 2022 Churchwide Assembly voted last summer to form the Commission for a Renewed Lutheran Church (CRLC), which will recommend how to restructure the ELCA’s governing process, it reached…

Voices of Faith

God revealed through people with disabilities

Editor’s note: This piece originally ran on March 7, 2018. We are rerunning it this year in observance of Disability Pride Month.   His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned,…

Mission & Ministry

[Video] Future Church: God’s Love Made Real

The gift of God’s son is for the world, not just our church buildings. The Future Church vision focuses on the world experiencing the difference God’s grace and love in…

Living Faithfully

News from ELCA Advocacy

Congregations volunteer, donate, cook, serve and care for the hungry in our communities. Despite these efforts, 2 out of 3 kids who are born into poor families will likely remain…

Voices of Faith

ELCA chaplain fulfills a dual calling in the Navy

Growing up as the son of a U.S. Air Force chaplain in Rice Lake, Wis., Peter Muschinske grew accustomed to people telling him, “You’re going to be a pastor like…

Voices of Faith

The mission and the many

If there’s such a thing as a classic Lutheran upbringing, it must resemble Greg Busboom’s childhood in Flatville, Ill. Busboom’s great-great-grandfather arrived in Flatville from Germany in 1874 and, with…

Living Faithfully

Have an ordinary summer

There comes a point every summer when I realize we aren’t going to complete everything on our summer bucket list. I have big dreams in May (I’ve made lists on…

Voices of Faith

July: Disability Pride Month

Editor’s note: This post, written by ELCA Disability Ministries Advisory Team member Peter Heide from a perspective of blindness, was originally published on the ELCA Disability Ministries blog. American organizations created…