Rahel Mwitula Williams has been appointed executive director for the Innovation unit of the ELCA. Mwitula Williams has served as the ELCA’s interim executive director for Innovation and its director…
Focal verse “As in one body we have many members and not all the members have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and…
Elected April 25 as bishop of the Northeastern Minnesota Synod, Taryn Montgomery sees the vital importance of churches’ ties to their local communities. Montgomery, who served as synod minister for…
Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, Cocoa Beach, Fla. Retired executive vice president and chief operating officer, Hyatt Vacation Ownership I moved to Cocoa Beach in 2015 with my husband and…
Justin Grimm, St. Paul, Minn., was elected May 16 to serve a six-year term as bishop of the Saint Paul Area Synod of the ELCA. The election took place during…
Joy Mortensen-Wiebe, Madison, Wis., was reelected May 16 to serve a second six-year term as bishop of the South-Central Synod of Wisconsin of the ELCA. The election took place during the…
Community leaders, clergy and public officials gathered March 14 at Christ Lutheran Church of Staten Island, N.Y., to officially launch the Salam Radio Station, the first Arabic Christian ecumenical online…
Vicki Michela Garlock was making her way through her morning read of Religion News Service when she came across a story about a man who earned a Guinness World Records…
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on the ELCA Advocacy blog. What is at stake in the electoral process? For Lutherans, our response is not exclusively individualistic. The electoral process…
Focal verse “Thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it a chaos;…
Taryn Montgomery, Duluth, Minn., was elected April 25 to serve a six-year term as bishop of the Northeastern Minnesota Synod of the ELCA. The election took place during the synod…
The ELCA Church Council met electronically on April 16. The council, which serves as the ELCA’s board of directors, took action on a variety of matters. In his report to…
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