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Voices of Faith
Listening for God’s call
Editor’s note: This year the ELCA celebrates 50 years of Lutheran women’s ordination in the United States, 40 years of the ordination of Lutheran women of color and 10 years…
Voices of Faith
I’m a Lutheran: Sherri Rinker
Bethlehem Lutheran Church, St. Charles, Ill. Children’s book author I started exploring church in college. I remember feeling incredibly awkward—not knowing the routine, having no sense of what was happening when…
Prayer Ventures
Prayer ventures: Oct. 15
Every day, 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 life…
Faith in Action
“Taking care of each other”
When the COVID-19 lockdown began in March and most ELCA congregations moved to virtual services, the St. Luke Lutheran Church and Christian Day School community in Silver Spring, Md., felt…
Voices of Faith
Liberation from hypocrisy
I was once a guest preacher at a congregation celebrating Veterans Day during Sunday worship. The service began with a color guard carrying an American flag into the sanctuary—a new…
Prayer Ventures
Prayer ventures: Oct. 13
Every day, 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 life…
Prayer Ventures
Prayer ventures: Oct. 11
Every day, 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 life…
Faith in Action
Discipleship in a democracy
“Pastor, I was really upset by Sunday’s sermon. You’re meddling in politics, which you have no business doing. I also hear that you participated in those recent protests. Don’t you…
Prayer Ventures
Prayer ventures: Oct. 9
Every day, 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 life…
Prayer Ventures
Prayer ventures: Oct. 8
Every day, 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 life…
Faith in Action
Many languages, one growing church
When God spoke to him, Jean Paul Kisuku knew he had to listen. A pastor in his native Congo, Kisuku had spent years ministering through prayer groups to his fellow Congolese and neighbors in…
Lectionary Blog
Lectionary: Grapes of justice and grapes of wrath
Lectionary blog for Oct. 4, 2020 Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost Isaiah 5:1-7; Psalm 80:7-15; Philippians 3:4b-14; Matthew 21:33-46 I recently co-hosted a training for lay leaders about Lutheran Christian theology….
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