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…
Serving a congregation during an election year has often presented challenges. But the last few election cycles have revealed deepening divides that have left pastors and deacons, especially those serving…
Middle Tennessee is rife with religion-derived discrimination, Dawn Bennett said. In response she became the pastor developer of the Table in Nashville, founded in December 2019. Its purpose? “To answer…
In a new letter released during Holy Week, more than 140 bishops and executive leaders from churches, denominations and church-based organizations in the U.S. and around the world call for…
Series editor’s note: Throughout 2024, “Deeper understandings” will feature teaching scholars of the ELCA reflecting on the many ways that Lutheran theology makes a difference for our daily lives. —Kristin Johnston Largen, president…
On Feb. 13, Tracie Bartholomew, bishop of the New Jersey Synod, joined ELCA advocacy staff to meet with federal legislators on Capitol Hill to express deep concern in accompaniment and…
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…
Editor’s note: When a congregation in Ralston, Neb., asked themselves how to serve those around them, they had to look no further than their own parking lot. This article about…
Originally posted to ELCA African Descent Ministries Facebook page, shared with us via Nicolette Peñaranda.
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…
Editor’s note: Faith-based advocacy happens wherever Lutherans are found, including through our ELCA-affiliated state public policy office network. When Washington, D.C.-based ELCA Hunger Advocacy Fellow Will Milner joined a delegation…
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…
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