The Conference of Bishops of the ELCA met Sept. 24-28 at the Lutheran Center in Chicago. The conference, an advisory body of the ELCA, comprises 65 synod bishops, the presiding…
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 as together…
Thanks to the power of partnerships and “the kids in the orange shirts,” thousands of disaster relief kits have been distributed to households in underserved Louisiana communities to help them…
A dear friend gave me a plaque inscribed with the words “Vocatus atque non vocatus Deus aderit.” Bidden or not bidden, God is present. It’s an intriguing proverb, thought to…
We are less than two months from Election Day. Nov. 5 is a significant day in our country as we exercise our right and responsibility as citizens to vote. Aside…
The ELCA Conference of Bishops has issued a statement on the need to speak the truth. “We know that the power of truth is greater than the power of deceit,”…
Editor’s note: This interview was originally published at lutheranworld.org. The first woman and the first person of color to lead the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Synod. The first Latina bishop elected…
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 as together…
Elizabeth Eaton, presiding bishop of the ELCA, has issued a statement on the Haitian immigrant community in Ohio. “The recent national spotlight on Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, clearly has…
Seattle Maritime Academy student, Girl Scouts of the USA Gold Award recipient Immanuel Lutheran Church, Seattle I graduated high school this year, but I had been involved in youth group…
Earlier this year the ELCA bishops in Pennsylvania knew they needed to do something. Called to shepherd God’s people in a swing state during an already contentious election, all seven…
When Vivian Dávila was in seminary, a professor told her: “Whenever you get up in that pulpit, whenever you go do some new ministry, and your knees aren’t shaking, stop—you…
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