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Prayer Ventures
April 15
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…
Prayer Ventures
April 12
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…
Lectionary Blog
Lectionary blog: Called to be agents of healing
Lectionary blog for April 17, 2016 Fourth Sunday of Easter Acts 9:36-43; Psalm 23; Revelation 7:9-17; John 10:22-30 I recently conducted the funeral for a woman in her 90s who…
Voices of Faith
I’m a Lutheran: Lenny Duncan
Temple Lutheran Church, Havertown, Pa. Seminarian and candidate for ordained ministry I found my faith in the forgotten places, where hope seems like an intruder—homeless, mired in alcoholism and seemingly…
Prayer Ventures
April 6
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…
Mission & Ministry
Developing ‘strong bonds’
Every day nearly 150 ELCA clergy are at work ministering to the women and men of the U.S. armed forces. “As chaplains we interact with our people in some powerful…
Faith in Action
Youth tutoring program provides lesson plans for life
On a recent Thursday evening at Ebenezer Lutheran in Chicago, students sat at tables smiling, laughing, talking and enjoying a meal of pasta prepared by Michael Fick, pastor of the…
Faith in Action
‘Silent Night’ at 40 degrees below
Shishmaref, Alaska, is often used as an example for those wanting to tell the story of climate change in the Arctic. But Marvin Jonasen, pastor of Shishmaref Lutheran Church, says…
Faith in Action
Call for climate action
Thousands of Lutherans were among nearly 1.8 million people to sign petitions urging political leaders who attended the December 2015 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris to “take decisive action…
Voices of Faith
Bind us together, Lord
Quickly, what are the first words that come to mind when you think of the word “religion”? What words did you come up with? In her book Christianity After Religion,…
Mission & Ministry
Grace
When Pope Francis convened a meeting of Roman Catholic bishops last October, it was for the sake of discussing the church’s historical tendency to place more importance on doctrine and…
Mission & Ministry
Two Noahs with a common cause
The name Noah brings to mind pairs of animals boarding the ark. At Central Lutheran Church, Portland, Ore., the name Noah also conjures images of pairs — though in this…
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