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My husband and I live in Skokie, Ill., a diverse community. Our neighbors to the west are an octogenarian Taiwanese Evangelical couple who regularly order meals from Kosher to Go….
My husband and I live in Skokie, Ill., a diverse community. Our neighbors to the west are an octogenarian Taiwanese Evangelical couple who regularly order meals from Kosher to Go….
Mi esposo y yo vivimos en Skokie, Illinois, una comunidad diversa. Nuestros vecinos al oeste son una pareja evangélica taiwanesa octogenaria que regularmente ordena comidas de Kosher to Go. Nuestros…
Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life…
Kenneth Wheeler was compelled to write his new book US: The Resurrection of American Terror (Precocity Press, 2022) after connecting the trauma he’d experienced under Jim Crow segregation to the rise…
Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life…
Author’s note: Lutherans and other hymn lovers may be surprised to learn how many of their favorite hymns come from medieval texts. Can anything good come out of the “Dark…
Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life…
Hephatha Lutheran Church, Milwaukee, Wis. Author of Aidan: The Lead-Free Superhero, Coalition on Lead Emergency organizer, lead awareness advocate. I have been a member of Hephatha Lutheran Church since I…
Eric Krewson of the Chairman Dances plays songs from his band’s new album and shares the inspiration behind them in an exclusive interview with Living Lutheran.
Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life…
Eric Krewson started his band the Chairman Dances just after completing a musicology program in 2010. Around the same time, he was experiencing what he calls a spiritual reawakening, and…
My middle daughter, Marta, is 4 feet, 11 inches tall. In 1988 my wife and I adopted her from a Roman Catholic orphanage in San Salvador when she was 11…
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