Giving voice to the voiceless
Julinda Sipayung has made it her life’s work to counsel, educate and empower Indonesian women who are victims of domestic violence to speak up and speak out. A Lutheran pastor…
A hands-on approach to vocation
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…
Standing behind a cause
Madeline Wilson (center), a student at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn., stands for a portrait with fellow students who are involved with her campaign asking the college to reform its…
At 100, Aunt Helen is baptized
Helen Gallik Abelt moved to Sarasota, Fla., in 1959 with her second husband and two foster daughters. Not long after the move, her husband left the family. With no nearby…
I’m a Lutheran: Kylie Oversen
Christus Rex Lutheran Campus Center, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks Law student, state representative and chair of the North Dakota Democratic-Nonpartisan League Party I found my faith when I…
Here between Easter and Pentecost
Here between Easter and Pentecost, our church finds itself in something of an interim time. It is, as poet and philosopher John O’Donohue reminds us, a time when the old…
April 30
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…
April 29
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…
April 27
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…
April 26
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…
Nepal: Life after the earthquake
Renuka Shrestha recalled the moment when the earthquake hit her Nepali village: “I was reading a book. Suddenly everything was shaking and I was so afraid. I tried to escape,…