Prayer ventures: July 16
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: July 16

Every day, 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 prayer life…

Prayer ventures: July 15
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: July 15

Every day, 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 prayer life…

Lectionary blog: Bearing good … wheat?
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: Bearing good … wheat?

Lectionary blog for July 19, 2020 Seventh Sunday after Pentecost Isaiah 44:6-8; Psalm 86:11-17; Romans 8:12-25; Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 One of the many reasons that I like the Gospel of…

Godly play
Spiritual Resources

Godly play

Last fall, a preschooler named Thomas, in line at the grocery store with his mom, struck up a conversation with the woman behind them. “Do you know a man named…

Prayer ventures: July 9
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: July 9

Every day, 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 prayer life…

LWF to launch network
Mission & Ministry

LWF to launch network

The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) is in the final stages of launching a network for theological education and formation. The network, which aims to strengthen the study of theology, facilitate…

Prayer ventures: July 7
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: July 7

Every day, 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 prayer life…

Lectionary blog: Letting God sweep us away
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: Letting God sweep us away

Lectionary for July 12, 2020 Sixth Sunday after Pentecost Isaiah 55:10-13; Psalm 65:9-13; Romans 8:1-11; Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 I believe that God has a mission for us all. God wants…

ELCA presiding bishop praises Supreme Court decision on LGBTQIA+ rights
Faith in Action

ELCA presiding bishop praises Supreme Court decision on LGBTQIA+ rights

ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton has issued a statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 15 ruling that employment discrimination on the basis of a worker’s sexual orientation or…

How Noah Hepler found “reawakening” in <i>Queer Eye</i>
Voices of Faith

How Noah Hepler found “reawakening” in Queer Eye

When Noah Hepler, pastor of Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Atonement in Philadelphia, was nominated by a member of his congregation council to be a featured “hero” on the Netflix…

Lectionary blog: Receiving a prophet’s reward
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: Receiving a prophet’s reward

Lectionary blog for June 28, 2020 Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Jeremiah 28:5-9; Psalm 89:1-4, 15-18; Romans 6:12-23; Matthew 10:40-42 Let’s be honest: listening to the many and varied voices that…