ELCA Conference of Bishops urge release of funds for East Jerusalem hospitals
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ELCA Conference of Bishops urge release of funds for East Jerusalem hospitals

ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton and the Conference of Bishops of the ELCA have issued a letter to President Trump urging the administration to restore funding to Augusta Victoria Hospital (AVH) and…

ELCA, Church of Sweden, Episcopal Church issue climate commitment
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ELCA, Church of Sweden, Episcopal Church issue climate commitment

The ELCA joined the Church of Sweden and the Episcopal Church Oct. 1 in a commitment to working together to advocate for national and international policies that address the urgency…

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Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: Oct. 2

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer…

First call excitement
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First call excitement

This summer, I started my call as pastor redeveloper of St. Philip Lutheran Church in Trenton, Mich. Even though I was officially starting my first call, I had already built…

Elizabeth Eaton re-elected presiding bishop of ELCA
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Elizabeth Eaton re-elected presiding bishop of ELCA

Elizabeth Eaton was re-elected presiding bishop of the ELCA August 6 at the 2019 ELCA Churchwide Assembly. On the first ballot, 897 votes were cast and 670 votes were needed…

Meeting Jesus at the truck stop
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Meeting Jesus at the truck stop

Before Matthew Best even set foot in St. Stephen Lutheran, New Kingstown, Pa., on his first day as pastor, he saw what would become an important mission for the congregation:…

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Perspective: Toll-booth evangelism

During seminary, the best summer job I had was collecting tolls on a bridge across the Mississippi River. Not quite the call of Matthew at the tax booth (Matthew 9:9),…

New bishops herald new life
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New bishops herald new life

Most of the people who founded Lutheran churches in the U.S. hundreds of years ago were white men who’d emigrated from Northern Europe. But the cultural homogeneity that once defined…