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Prayer Ventures
Prayer ventures: Dec. 10
Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer…
Spiritual Resources
Study guide for “When your Advent calendar is broken”
In just the four weeks before Christmas, the church season of Advent endeavors to prepare us for the tremendous changes God is bringing to us in the birth of Jesus….
Spiritual Resources
Study guide for “An oasis in a food desert”
For many Americans, poverty is not the only issue complicating their ability to obtain sufficient healthful, nutritious food. Where they live in relation to well-supplied grocery stores can be a…
Mission & Ministry
An oasis in a food desert
For many Christians, meals begin not with picking up a fork but with a moment of silence to give thanks. For Jessica Cameron, who lives in a food desert, that…
Faith in Action
ELCA receives Lilly grant to support Compelling Preaching initiative
The ELCA has received a $1 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help establish the ELCA Compelling Preaching: Transformed Listeners Initiative. The goal of the initiative is to cultivate…
Voices of Faith
I’m a Lutheran: Norma Frances “Tootsie” Tomanetz
Associate member, Grace Lutheran Church, Giddings, Texas Pitmaster, Snow’s BBQ, Lexington, Texas Martin Luther Lutheran Church in Giddings, Texas, is my home church, but I attend regularly at Grace too….
Prayer Ventures
Prayer ventures: Dec. 8
Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer…
Spiritual Resources
Study guide for “The virtual church?”
The internet has opened a “whole new world” to faith communities—but it’s one that is still unfamiliar and in need of exploration for many church leaders and followers of Jesus….
Faith in Action
Symposium brings focus to missing and murdered Indigenous women
Meeting under the theme “Am I My Sister’s Keeper? Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls,” the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC) held its annual Vine Deloria Jr….
Voices of Faith
I’m a Lutheran: Ghirmai “Abraham” Israel Dree
First Lutheran Church, Redlands, Calif. Respiratory care practitioner and registered respiratory therapist Growing up, I was one of nine children, born in the village of Takita, Eritrea, which was then…
Mission & Ministry
A big dream to end child homelessness
Roxana Boroujerdi had spent decades as a social worker serving youth in Everett, Wash., when she opted for a change of pace in her career: She opened an ice cream…
Prayer Ventures
Prayer ventures: Nov. 12
Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer…