Lectionary blog for June 5 Third Sunday after Pentecost 1 Kings 17:17-24; Psalm 30; Galatians 1:11-24; Luke 7:11-17 My grandfather, Reid Chilton, was a great storyteller in the old Appalachian…
You could consider Steve Nahn a modern-day psalmist. David, the writer of Psalm 8, pondered with wonder: “When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon…
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…
Frances Blatchley remembers as a child pretending she was a nurse. “It was all I ever wanted to be from the time I was little,” she said. “My poor mother…
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…
Jason DeRose has known he wanted to be a journalist since the sixth grade, so he was as surprised as anyone to find himself at the University of Chicago earning…
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…
Presiding Bishop Elizabeth A. Eaton continues the conversation on racism in the United States with a webcast this Wednesday (May 25) from 7 to 8 p.m. (CDT). Eaton and others…
Lectionary blog for May 29 Second Sunday after Pentecost I Kings 8:22-23, 41-43; Psalm 96:1-9; Galatians 1:1-12; Luke 7:1-10 I have lived in several small towns and rural places in…
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…
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…
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…
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