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Camp for all
A couple of years ago, transgender students at Black Hills State University in South Dakota were threatened on social media. “They were friends of some of our students and we…
Living Faithfully
Bishops-elect reflect on historic votes
Last weekend, following her election as the ELCA’s first female African-descent synod bishop, Patricia Davenport was reminded of a hymn her congregation sings, “For Everyone Born” by Shirley Erena Murray….
Living Faithfully
God as midwife
On the surface, Rachel Marie Stone’s new book, Birthing Hope: Giving Fear to the Light (IVP, 2018), is about parenthood and the challenges of giving birth around the world. But…
Living Faithfully
May 2018 news
ELCA youth, adults march for gun control ELCA youth and adults joined thousands for the March for Our Lives demonstrations on March 24 in Washington, D.C., and across the nation….
Living Faithfully
One in Christ
When the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly authorized the development of a social statement on women and justice, issues related to the topic weren’t dominating the headlines. Nearly 10 years later,…
Living Faithfully
New name, same “servant of Christ”
A service led by Pastor Beeson at St. Matthew Trinity Lutheran Church in Hoboken, N.J., would look and sound familiar to most ELCA members, from its hymnals, to its weekly…
Voices of Faith
Unlikely messengers
God entrusted the most important news ever to women. Two thousand years before the #metoo movement and the proliferation of high-profile women courageously offering testimonies that chill the soul like…
Mission & Ministry
Called and chosen
Introduction M. Wyvetta Bullock and Cheryl Stewart Pero For many years, women of color in the ELCA felt silenced and searched for opportunities to speak for themselves. We initiated “God’s…
Study Guides
Study guide: Called and chosen
The ELCA has 17,460 rostered ministers (deacons and pastors). The 250 women of color serving as rostered ministers comprise only a tiny fraction of that number—1.4 percent, or 1 out…
Spiritual Resources
Both/and
Austen Hartke is the creator of the YouTube series Transgender and Christian, which seeks to understand and interpret Scripture related to gender identity and transgender people. His online work became…
Voices of Faith
3 things church taught me about race relations
When I was 10 years old, my family switched congregations, and it was an event that changed my life forever. I started my life at an all-black Lutheran congregation in…
Living Faithfully
Perspective: Confessing racism
I was about 10 years old, standing in the kitchen, hanging around as bratty sisters do, and listening to my parents talk to my 15-year-old sister. The only words I…
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