Ingrid Arneson Rasmussen, a pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, was handcuffed and arrested in January for kneeling in the middle of a road at the Minneapolis-St. Paul…
Editor’s note: Throughout the summer, Living Lutheran is commemorating the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence with articles reflecting on the church’s role in civic life and…
Editor’s note: Throughout the summer, Living Lutheran is commemorating the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence with articles reflecting on the church’s role in civic life…
Lectionary for July 5, 2026 Sixth Sunday after Pentecost Zechariah 9:9-12; Psalm 145:8-14; Romans 7:15-25a; Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 You may have heard the phrase, “Idle hands are the devil’s playground.”…
Editor’s note: This post was originally published on the ELCA Racial Justice blog. Let’s take a trip back to high school history class: The history of enslaved people on what would…
Editor’s note: ELCA Racial Justice Ministries offers a variety of free resources that are available for digital download on the ELCA website. The next webinar in this series, “Freedom of…
The following appears in the 2022 African Descent Ministries Annual Report to remember the nine members of Emanuel American Methodist Church in Charleston, South Carolina on June 17, 2015. The…
Lectionary for June 14, 2026 Third Sunday after Pentecost Exodus 19:2-8a; Psalm 100; Romans 5:1-8; Matthew 9:35–10:8 My job is to help college students integrate their faith-driven values into their…
Editor’s note: This the final installment of a three-part series of Lutherans reflecting on their families’ experience of Japanese American incarceration. When Stacy D. Kitahata, an ELCA member and third-generation…
Lectionary for May 24, 2026 Day of Pentecost Acts 2:1-21; Numbers 11:24-30; Psalm 104:24-34, 35b; 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13; John 20:19-23 Since I don’t serve a congregation, I rarely put on…
Editor’s note: In this second installment of a three-part Living Lutheran series, Deanna Kim Bassett, an ELCA pastor, reflects on her family’s experience of Japanese American incarceration—and what those stories…
In downtown Phoenix, where glass high-rises and new developments have replaced what was once a low-income corridor, a different kind of congregation gathers. This congregation is shaped less by brick…
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