Those suffering from dementia can feel isolated, excluded and dismissed by the rest of society, and their caregivers can feel overwhelmed and unsupported. Jesus calls Christians to love all our…
Early in the screen musical In the Heights, matriarch Abuela Claudia (Olga Merediz) describes the velvet gloves her mother purchased when she immigrated from Cuba to the Manhattan barrio Washington…
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…
A lot has changed in the decade-plus since I co-wrote They Are Us: Lutherans and Immigration (Augsburg Fortress, 2009) with Ralston Deffenbaugh. In the book, we attempted to build a…
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…
Made, Known, Loved: Developing LGBTQ-inclusive Youth Ministry Ross Murray, an ELCA deacon, wrote Made, Known, Loved drawing from his experience as director of the Naming Project (see page 34). Murray…
Grace Lutheran Church, Evanston, Ill. Violinist, teacher assistant at Park School in Evanston, Ill., violin/viola instructor and music minister at Grace I’ve been playing violin since I was 8. Growing…
“Tiny” is the wrong word for the vision of Ellie Roscher and Heidi Barr. When Roscher and I speak, her energy exudes through the phone. We’ve met in person exactly…
Editor’s note: May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Read the ELCA’s social message “The Body of Christ and Mental Illness.” Religion and mental health treatment are often viewed as opposites. Some…
When Jan LeClair began noticing changes in her singing voice, she started looking for someone who could help ensure that she’d be able to continue singing her whole life. “As…
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…
Let my spirit always sing, though my heart be wintering, though the season of despair give no sign that you are there, God to whom my days belong, let there…
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