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Prayer Ventures
June 14
Everyday, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions are offered as a guide for your own…
Voices of Faith
A lexicon of faith: Hope
Hope is a simple four-letter word that packs unbelievable punch in the Christian life. Unfortunately, hope gets disguised beneath plenty of realities that deserve to go by the name of…
Prayer Ventures
June 13
Everyday, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions are offered as a guide for your own…
Spiritual Resources
June film and book reviews
Film review The Jungle Book. This stunning Disney film with live-action and computer-generated imagery in 3-D is an adventure story that keeps us on the edge of our seats. It’s…
Mission & Ministry
To have and to hold
During this wedding season we’re often reminded that 40 to 50 percent of first marriages will fail because some couples prepared endlessly for their wedding day but weren’t ready for…
Living Faithfully
Lutherans ‘light the darkness’ for Muslim neighbors
In several neighborhoods of Minnesota and Northwest Washington, Lutherans this week placed outside their homes, and on church lawns, signs wishing Muslim neighbors a blessed Ramadan. Ramadan is the ninth…
Living Faithfully
Cat’s in the cradle & my son is a grad
My son, Seth, graduated from high school a few days ago. Harry Chapin’s “Cat’s in the Cradle” keeps popping up in my head every time I pause to catch my…
Prayer Ventures
May 30
Everyday, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions are offered as a guide for your own…
Mission & Ministry
Hospital stretches resources to treat many
Angela Marzvizo was just a child when her father fell ill and her mother abandoned her. For comfort and companionship, she befriended nurses at nearby Mnene Hospital in the Mberengwa…
Spiritual Resources
Media in ministry: Highly recommended
Looking for creative ideas for your congregation to lift up God’s glorious creation this Earth Day (April 22)? Consider the Bible study Caring for Creation from Creative Communications for the…
Spiritual Resources
Holy discomfort
A few months ago we started using a blessing at the end of our worship taken from A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, simply called “The Franciscan Blessing.” And in there…
Spiritual Resources
May film and book reviews
Film review Hello, My Name is Doris: Doris Miller is a 60-something woman who, feeling lonely after the death of her mother, finds herself attracted to a co-worker who is…
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