Prayer ventures: June 28
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: June 28

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…

Video: How Noah Hepler found “reawakening” in Queer Eye
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Video: How Noah Hepler found “reawakening” in Queer Eye

Noah Hepler, pastor of Evangelical Lutheran Church of Atonement in Philadelphia, is the featured “hero” in the premiere of the new season of Netflix’s Queer Eye series. What did he…

I’m a Lutheran: Kate Hanmer Elkins
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I’m a Lutheran: Kate Hanmer Elkins

Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, Atlanta Early childhood professional—preschool director and teacher I believe God is love abounding in depth and width far beyond the capacity of our human minds….

Prayer ventures: June 26
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: June 26

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…

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A mosaic of identities, one loving God

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…

Prayer ventures: June 25
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: June 25

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…

ELCA presiding bishop praises Supreme Court decision on LGBTQIA+ rights
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ELCA presiding bishop praises Supreme Court decision on LGBTQIA+ rights

ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton has issued a statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 15 ruling that employment discrimination on the basis of a worker’s sexual orientation or…

Prayer ventures: June 24
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: June 24

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…

How Noah Hepler found “reawakening” in <i>Queer Eye</i>
Voices of Faith

How Noah Hepler found “reawakening” in Queer Eye

When Noah Hepler, pastor of Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Atonement in Philadelphia, was nominated by a member of his congregation council to be a featured “hero” on the Netflix…

A love story
Voices of Faith

A love story

Series editor’s note: Throughout 2020, “Deeper understandings” will engage the ELCA’s commitment to authentic diversity. Kwame Pitts will continue on this theme in the next issue. —Kathryn A. Kleinhans, dean of Trinity…

My faith journey: The spirituality of grandparenting
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My faith journey: The spirituality of grandparenting

“But take care and watch yourselves closely, so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days…

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Generation to generation

Editor’s note: Living Lutheran facilitated this dialogue between father-son duo Martin, 52, and Seth, 21, Zimmann. What follows is an edited version of that exchange. What have you taught each…