Prayer ventures: June 26
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: June 26

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…

Our medieval hymns: “Come, Creator Spirit”
Mission & Ministry

Our medieval hymns: “Come, Creator Spirit”

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…

Prayer ventures: May 22
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: May 22

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…

Short stories and small comforts – Video
Spiritual Resources

Short stories and small comforts – Video

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.

Prayer ventures: April 26
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: April 26

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…

Short stories and small comforts
Spiritual Resources

Short stories and small comforts

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…

The bemusing board-game beauty of the Bible
Voices of Faith

The bemusing board-game beauty of the Bible

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…

Bread as God’s presence
Spiritual Resources

Bread as God’s presence

Kendall Vanderslice is a professional baker, the founder of the educational nonprofit the Edible Theology Project and a 2018 James Beard Foundation national scholar. Her new book By Bread Alone:…

The body and the soul in <i>The Whale</i>
Voices of Faith

The body and the soul in The Whale

This review contains spoilers. So many conflicts in modern Christendom and the world at large revolve around the human body and our conduct toward it that one might reasonably look…