Michael Plekon served for 40 years as a minister in both the Western and Eastern churches, initially as an ELCA pastor and later as a priest in the Orthodox Church…
Ballard First Lutheran Church, Seattle Beverly Cleary Endowed Professor in Children and Youth Services and chair of the library and information science program at the University of Washington, Seattle; co-founder…
Revealing a life with mental illness requires either a lot of trust or a lot of exhaustion, or a combination of both. The symptoms and experiences of my own life…
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…
The only time I tried to hurt my brother—who was older, stronger and didn’t try to hurt me back because it would have been too easy—was in high school when…
Eric Krewson wrote most of his band’s new album while living in a 6-by-6-foot shack in the Cascade Mountains in fall 2019. The frontman and lead songwriter of the Philadelphia…
When Jeff Crim learned that the McMinn County School Board in Tennessee had voted to remove the acclaimed graphic novel Maus from its eighth-grade curriculum, he was, in a word,…
As many people with strong religious traditions, Lutherans are sometimes reluctant to change and try new ways of thinking about and practicing faith. But there is a groundswell movement of…
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…
For the first 30 minutes of Mass, nothing much happens. Sitting in the nondescript basement of a Midwestern church, two couples—Jay and Gail (Jason Isaacs and Martha Plimpton) and Richard…
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…
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…
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