Prayer Ventures: May 2
Prayer Ventures

Prayer Ventures: May 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…

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Voices of Faith

Deeper conversations

“The last thing my pastor told me before I left for college was that if I majored in biology, I’d go to hell.” Several seminary instructors had been invited to…

Prayer Ventures: May 1
Prayer Ventures

Prayer Ventures: May 1

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…

The Avengers and a demand for grace
Voices of Faith

The Avengers and a demand for grace

In a favorite moment of 2012’s The Avengers, supervillain Loki taunts the Hulk by bellowing, “You are, all of you, beneath me!” But just as Loki declares, “I am a…

Is America facing a “post-Christian” future?
Faith in Action

Is America facing a “post-Christian” future?

In July 2017, the research firm Barna Group released “The Most Post-Christian Cities in America,” a report based on surveys of 76,505 adults in 100 American cities. The results? Portland-Auburn,…

Prayer Ventures: April 30
Prayer Ventures

Prayer Ventures: April 30

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…

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Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: Liberation and obligation

Lectionary blog for May 6 The Sixth Sunday of Easter Acts 10:44-48; Psalm 98; John 5:1-6; John 15:9-17 Writing in USA Today (May 8, 2006), Presbyterian Pastor Henry G. Brinton made…

Prayer Ventures: April 29
Prayer Ventures

Prayer Ventures: April 29

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…

Prayer Ventures: April 28
Prayer Ventures

Prayer Ventures: April 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…

God loves
From The Presiding Bishop

God loves

During a recent chapel service at the Lutheran Center, Rafael Malpica Padilla, executive director for Global Mission, shared his favorite Bible verse with us: “Now before the festival of the…

Prayer Ventures: April 27
Prayer Ventures

Prayer Ventures: April 27

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…

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Voices of Faith

Jesus prayed for me

In the Gospel text for the seventh Sunday of Easter (John 17:6-19), Jesus prays for the disciples as his earthly journey nears its end. What was Jesus feeling as he…