Older members of your congregation may remember when most stores were closed on Sundays, or when public schools hosted Christmas pageants and taught kids to sing carols. In our current…
You hear the question in most every congregation: “How can we reach today’s youth?” The ELCA Youth Gathering, held every three years and just this past summer in Houston, is…
Our denomination is a leader in ecumenical relationships, forging strategic alliances and cooperating on mission with other Christians. The ELCA now has special full-communion partnerships with six other mainline denominations….
Our society has made strides in gender equality over the last 50 years, but the #MeToo movement and the emerging struggle over LGBTQ rights have helped reveal just how much…
Our culture celebrates leaders past and present who are obviously and notoriously extroverted—those successful people who flaunt the stereotypical extroversion characteristics of being loud, outspoken, quick to speak up/step up,…
God is the one who made the universe out of nothing and human beings out of the dust of the earth. And because we are made in the image of…
More than 64,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2016, government figures show, and the number is rising due to the opioid crisis. And much more numerous are the people…
Raise your hand if you’ve eaten today! OK! Now raise your hand if you plan on eating tomorrow! All right! Everybody who had a hand up should be interested in…
Data from pollsters and sociologists agree that the church occupies a smaller, less-prominent place in our culture than it did even a generation ago. Some are even using the term…
The first “Evangelicals” were the courageous Christians who gathered 500 years ago around Martin Luther, the monk who taught faith insights so revolutionary that the Roman Catholic Church excommunicated him…
The ELCA has 17,460 rostered ministers (deacons and pastors). The 250 women of color serving as rostered ministers comprise only a tiny fraction of that number—1.4 percent, or 1 out…
Our culture has changed significantly in the last 50 years in both its awareness of the needs of people with disabilities and its willingness to accommodate those needs. Of course,…
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