Embrace the transitions
Faith in Action

Embrace the transitions

Let’s be honest: transitions are difficult. As summer comes to a close, families might despair at returning to a school schedule. Yet children, teens and adults thrive on structure. Does…

Prayer ventures: Aug. 21
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: Aug. 21

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…

Prayer ventures: Aug. 16
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: Aug. 16

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…

Lectionary blog: A right ordering
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: A right ordering

Lectionary for Aug. 21, 2022 11th Sunday after Pentecost Isaiah 58:9b-14; Psalm 103:1-8; Hebrews 12:18-29; Luke 13:10-17 Who hasn’t been frustrated when something they had planned to go a certain…

Prayer ventures: Aug. 14
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: Aug. 14

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…

AVH: funds allow hospital to continue life-saving work
Faith in Action

AVH: funds allow hospital to continue life-saving work

The Augusta Victoria Hospital (AVH) in East Jerusalem has received vital funding from both the United States and the European Union, enabling it to continue providing life-saving health care services…

Lectionary blog: Toward a positive peace
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: Toward a positive peace

Lectionary for Aug. 14, 2022 Tenth Sunday after Pentecost Jeremiah 23:23-29; Psalm 82; Hebrews 11:29-12:2; Luke 12:49-56 The Hebrew Bible and Gospel readings today seek to upend our understandings about…

Can we answer the question ‘why’?
From The Presiding Bishop

Can we answer the question ‘why’?

Once for continuing education I signed up for an introduction to philosophy course at the community college. I was a music education major in college and never had any philosophy…

Prayer ventures: Aug. 2
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: Aug. 2

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…

Prayer ventures: July 31
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: July 31

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…

Lectionary blog: Which readiness?
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: Which readiness?

Lectionary for Aug. 7, 2022 Ninth Sunday after Pentecost Genesis 15:1-6; Psalm 33:12-22; Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16; Luke 12:32-40 In the past few months—and, indeed, in the past few centuries—we have…