Lectionary for April 11, 2021 Second Sunday of Easter Acts 4:32-35; Psalm 133; 1 John 1:1-2:2; John 20:19-31 My day job (when not writing these reflections) is to help train…
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…
“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…
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…
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 for April 4, 2021 Easter Sunday Isaiah 25:6-9; Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24; 1 Corinthians 15:1-11; Mark 16:1-8 The last word in the earliest manuscripts of the Gospel of Mark is…
Lectionary for March 28, 2021 Palm Sunday Isaiah 50:4-9a; Psalm 31:9-16; Philippians 2:5-11; Mark 14:1—15:47 One of the images of Jesus that speaks most to my heart is that of…
The ELCA and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) have resumed a bilateral dialogue that will define a new ecumenical relationship for common mission and ministry. In a March 10…
In the title tale of Karen Russell’s wry collection of short stories, Orange World (Knopf, 2019), a fearful mother, worried about her baby, strikes a deal with the devil, who…
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 for March 21, 2021 Fifth Sunday in Lent Jeremiah 31:31-34; Psalm 51:1-12; Hebrews 5:5-10; John 12:20-33 My wife likes to say that an adventure is when you don’t know…
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…
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