When I was growing up, my mother encouraged me to try everything: sports, music, art, student government and camps of every kind. These extracurricular activities helped me build friendships in…
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…
Hope Lutheran Church and Student Center, College Park, Md. Occupation: meteorologist with the federal government Vocation: to be salt, light and leaven in the world (Matthew 5:13-16, 13:33) As a…
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…
As we journey into Lent, preparing to commemorate Jesus’ death and resurrection, our lectionary readings invite us to consider his humanity. We learn how Jesus suffered temptation (Hebrews 2:18), desperation…
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…
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…
Erin Magoon, a junior at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn., said that before May 2019, she knew little about the history of women’s ordination in the Lutheran church. Determined to…
For the first time in the history of the ELCA, the ELCA Church Council and the ELCA Conference of Bishops held a joint meeting over multiple days, March 6-8 in…
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…
With the World Health Organization having this week declared the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) a global pandemic, the ELCA is striving for congregations and other church gatherings to be well-informed…
Raised in San Antonio as a Roman Catholic, Enedina Casarez Vasquez was 9 years old when an incident during mass changed her life. She was waiting for her friend Tony…
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