Prayer ventures: June 7
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: June 7

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…

Prayer ventures: June 5
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: June 5

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…

Holy trinity, holy mystery
Voices of Faith

Holy trinity, holy mystery

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. This is our trinitarian greeting that comes from…

Prayer ventures: June 2
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: June 2

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…

Walking <i>Onward</i> with Christ
Voices of Faith

Walking Onward with Christ

At times, the Pixar movie Onward plays like an animated adaptation of a lost story by J.R.R. Tolkien or C.S. Lewis. It follows elf brothers Ian (voiced by Tom Holland) and Barley…

Lectionary blog: Jesus’ authority
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: Jesus’ authority

Lectionary blog for June 7, 2020 First Sunday after Pentecost Genesis 1:1-2, 4a; Psalm 8; 2 Corinthians 13:1-13; Matthew 28:16-20 Matthew is my favorite Gospel. I’m excited for this long…

A faithful witness
Voices of Faith

A faithful witness

Sheryl Anderson isn’t a religious leader or a missionary, but in less than a year she has built a new ELCA congregation, supplying it with an attentive pastor and room…

Prayer ventures: May 31
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: May 31

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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Voices of Faith

Look for the scars

Where is God in this crisis? Is this punishment? Why does God allow this to happen? Seventy-five summers ago, locked in his prison cell, German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer lamented: “They…

Night songs
Living Faithfully

Night songs

Every couple of years, on a dark night in winter, the sanctuary at University Lutheran Church of Hope (ULCH) in Minneapolis is transformed into a planetarium. During the event, called…

Prayer ventures: May 26
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: May 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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Living Faithfully

Built to thrive

Anyone driving along Oak Street in Lexington, S.C., this spring may notice about a half dozen construction workers—and a few volunteers—attaching boards to a wood-frame skeleton with a prominent arch…