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Prayer Ventures
Prayer Ventures: May 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…
Voices of Faith
The mobile parish
When I concluded my ministry at Epiphany Lutheran Church in Dale City, Va., I prayed for an immediate call within the Metropolitan Washington, D.C., Synod to avoid moving our youngest…
Prayer Ventures
Prayer Ventures: May 4
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
Prayer Ventures: May 3
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
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…
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
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…
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…
Living Faithfully
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
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…
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
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…