Along with coffee, communion and potluck suppers, music constitutes a big part of community life in many Lutheran churches. Music not only brings us together for fellowship and common purpose…
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…
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, I’ve been preparing virtual worship services for my congregation. Instead of reading the Gospel lesson, I use LUMO, a visual translation of the…
For most of us, the concept of home is complex. In Finding Home (Cascade Books, 2020), author Julie K. Aageson reflects on the physical, spiritual and metaphorical meanings of home….
“It is good once a year,” Martin Luther wrote, “to read through the whole story of the Passion.” With 44 excerpts from Luther’s Easter sermons, Reformation historian Roland H. Bainton…
Following the mass shootings in Atlanta on March 16 and in Boulder, Colo., on March 22, Elizabeth Eaton has issued a statement on gun violence. “Together with God, we grieve…
Focal verse “O sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth” (Psalm 96:1). Reflection Last year, like many children across the country, my daughter…
Bethany Lutheran Church, Crystal Lake, Ill. Executive medical director for infection prevention and control at University of Chicago Medicine, doctor, chief hospital epidemiologist, assistant director of medical ethics I was…
No matter how many meaningful relationships we may have, it’s the rare person who doesn’t feel loneliness. Writer and spiritual director Charlotte Donlon’s new book, The Great Belonging (Broadleaf Books,…
It’s part of our human condition—unexpected, unpredictable, unwanted events that cause us suffering and pain. Maybe the loss of a job, the end of a relationship, a loved one’s death,…
Bread for the Day 2021: Daily Bible Readings and Prayers For those seeking a daily way to engage with Scripture and deepen their prayer lives, look no further than the…
There are books that provoke action and those that provide a blueprint for taking action. In The World Is About to Turn: Mending a Nation’s Broken Faith (Chalice Press, 2020),…
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