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Prayer Ventures

May 5

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…
Standing behind a cause
Faith in Action

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…
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Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: Free, like Paul and Silas

Lectionary blog for May 8, 2016 Seventh Sunday of Easter Acts 16:16-34; Psalm 97; Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21; John 17:20-26 This is Mother’s Day. When I was a kid, my…
Lectionary blog: Pass it on – just as Lydia did
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: Pass it on – just as Lydia did

Lectionary blog for May 1, 2016 Sixth Sunday of Easter Acts 16:9-15; Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5; John 14:23-29 In June of 1977, I – along 20 other women and men – was…
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Faith in Action

Faith and family

Q+A How do I teach my child empathy? Our children hear it every day at school and at home: share, take turns, keep your hands to yourself. Yet it takes…
ELCA awards 11 Rossing Physics Scholarships
Faith in Action

ELCA awards 11 Rossing Physics Scholarships

The ELCA has awarded the 2016-2017 Rossing Physics Scholarships to 11 ELCA college and university students. The annual scholarships are made possible through gifts from Dr. Thomas D. Rossing, who…
Lectionary blog: Never quite normal
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: Never quite normal

Lectionary blog for April 10, 2016 Third Sunday After Easter Texts: Acts 9:1-6; Psalm 30; Revelation 5:11-14; John 21:1-19 When my older son was a preschooler, we had a book…
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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…