Prayer for Jan. 27
Prayer Ventures

Prayer for Jan. 27

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource “Prayer ventures,” which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer…

Prayer for Jan. 24
Prayer Ventures

Prayer for Jan. 24

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource “Prayer ventures,” which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer…

Prayer for Jan. 23
Prayer Ventures

Prayer for Jan. 23

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource “Prayer ventures,” which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer…

I’m a Lutheran: Trish Preston
Voices of Faith

I’m a Lutheran: Trish Preston

Epiphany Lutheran Church, Pickerington, Ohio Chief farm operator, Preston Family Farm; co-founder, Winchester Farm Exchange I grew up in a tiny congregation in Centerville, Ohio, Epiphany Lutheran. That congregation eventually…

Canada, Denmark, U.S. Lutheran bishops issue joint statement supporting Greenlandic people
From The Presiding Bishop

Canada, Denmark, U.S. Lutheran bishops issue joint statement supporting Greenlandic people

ELCA Presiding Bishop Yehiel Curry, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada National Bishop Larry Kochendorfer and Henrik Stubkjær, bishop of Viborg in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark, have issued a joint…

Perspective: Why gathering matters
Voices of Faith

Perspective: Why gathering matters

I’m far from the first to share my fatigue with living in “unprecedented times.” We are indeed living in times of upheaval and division, within society and the church alike….

A spirit of abundance

A spirit of abundance

Elected Nov. 1 as bishop of the Allegheny Synod, Kevin Shock understands the importance of congregations striving to spread good news among their neighbors. Shock has served the synod as…

Deacons included in new ELCA, Episcopal clergy exchange guidelines
Mission & Ministry

Deacons included in new ELCA, Episcopal clergy exchange guidelines

Marking a quarter-century of full-communion partnership, The Episcopal Church and the ELCA now welcome the exchange of deacons in updated clergy exchange guidelines. Available in English and Spanish, the new…

Innovations in rural ministry
Mission & Ministry

Innovations in rural ministry

Innovation is in bloom across the rural reaches of the ELCA, and perhaps nothing exemplifies that better than a new food ministry in Iowa. The Western Iowa Synod calls it…

Study guide for “The honesty of Ash Wednesday”
Study Guides

Study guide for “The honesty of Ash Wednesday”

“One blustery Ash Wednesday, some pastor colleagues and I went downtown to distribute ‘ashes on the go.’ We spread on sidewalks that ran along towering office buildings and bustling restaurants,…

Study guide for “Innovations in rural ministry”
Study Guides

Study guide for “Innovations in rural ministry”

Innovation is in bloom across the rural reaches of the ELCA, and perhaps nothing exemplifies that better than a new food ministry in Iowa. The Western Iowa Synod calls it…