A conversation with Brittney Shipman
June is Pride Month! We are excited to affirm and embrace everyone in the church and to amplify the voices of our ELCA siblings in the LGBTQIA+ community. Today we…
June is Pride Month! We are excited to affirm and embrace everyone in the church and to amplify the voices of our ELCA siblings in the LGBTQIA+ community. Today we…
June is Pride Month! We are excited to affirm and embrace everyone in the church, and to amplify the voices of our ELCA siblings in the LGBTQIA+ community. Today we…
Editor’s note: This article was originally published in the Leadership Circle interactive newsletter. Shepherd’s Table in Sioux Falls, S.D., formed around the idea of a dinner church, is leading with…
June is Pride Month! We are excited to affirm and embrace everyone in the church, and to amplify the voices of our ELCA siblings in the LGBTQIA+ community. Today we…
June is Pride Month! We are excited to affirm and embrace everyone in the church, and to amplify the voices of our ELCA siblings in the LGBTQIA+ community. Today we…
When William Siong came to the United States in the late 1980s as a 15-year-old Hmong refugee, he was seeking a better life, having lost both his parents during the…
Years ago, while working at a camp, Scott Wylie started referring to his safe space, where race or economic status didn’t matter, as “the bubble.” Whenever he left the camp,…
Editor’s note: Embracing Queer Family uses the term “Queer” to mean “anyone who does not identify as heterosexual and cisgender.” The authors acknowledge that not everyone in the LGBTQIA+ community…
Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life…
June is Pride Month! We are excited to affirm and embrace everyone in the church, and to amplify the voices of our ELCA siblings in the LGBTQIA+ community. Today we…
As she took the podium, Jill Rode, a pastor of St. Anthony Park Lutheran Church in St. Paul, Minn., looked out at a roomful of Asian Lutheran leaders of a…
Editor’s note: This article originally ran May 26, 2016. Six hundred years before the birth of Jesus, in response to Exile in Babylon, Jeremiah wrote, “A voice is heard in…
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