The ELCA has issued a response following the May 24 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. “The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America grieves with the families of…
Series editor’s note: Throughout 2022, “Deeper understandings” will feature biblical scholars sharing some of their favorite books of the Bible. Next month, Katherine A. Shaner will continue this theme. —Kathryn…
“A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because they are no more” (Matthew 2:18). A grocery store….
Paul D. Erickson, Milwaukee, was reelected May 21 to a six-year term as bishop of the Greater Milwaukee Synod of the ELCA. The election was held during the synod assembly,…
After the closure of St. James Evangelical Lutheran in Coral Gables, Fla., the Florida-Bahamas Synod found itself with nearly $10 million from the sale of the congregation’s property. Without skipping…
“I just don’t understand why,” he said to me, shaking his head. “Why would someone drive so far to do this to us?” We were walking away from the scene…
In a May 18 letter, bishops of the ELCA urged congressional leaders to support the transfer of funds to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to cover debt owed…
The ELCA has issued a statement on the May 14 shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., in which a white supremacist gunman killed 10 people. “Our hearts grieve for those who have…
Artist. Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Crestview Hills-Lakeside Park, Ky. There has never been a time in my life when I wasn’t talking to Jesus every day. I was reared…
William J. Gohl Jr. was reelected May 12 to serve a second six-year term as bishop of the Delaware-Maryland Synod of the ELCA. The election took place during the synod assembly…
In the world’s northernmost settlement of Longyearbyen, Norway, in the Svalbard archipelago, Siv Limstrand serves as pastor of Svalbard Church—a congregation in the Church of Norway, a Lutheran World Federation…
Elizabeth A. Eaton, presiding bishop of the ELCA, has issued a pastoral message on the U.S. Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion on abortion. “The people of this church and this…
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