Chad Brekke, one of the pastors of Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Brooklyn Park, Minn., was attending a Mumford & Sons concert last Thursday when musician Prince died. When…
Everyday, 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…
Everyday, 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…
Renuka Shrestha recalled the moment when the earthquake hit her Nepali village: “I was reading a book. Suddenly everything was shaking and I was so afraid. I tried to escape,…
(This is not the start of a mindless joke about dyslexia; I am totally serious about what follows.) One of life’s most perplexing matters is this: How can someone love…
Everyday, 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…
Dave Belcher served in the Army for 17 years. He was a platoon sergeant and received a Bronze Star and a Combat Infantry Badge, but he came home with a…
It was fiscal pragmatism that originally led Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, Hood River, Ore., to look at merger options. Nearly a decade later, a culture of collaboration, service and faith…
Everyday, 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…
Starbucks barista. Pharmacist. Substitute teacher. Nanny. Animal handler. Roller derby announcer. These seemingly unrelated professionals have one thing in common—they’re all leading “double lives” as church workers, most as pastors….
Lectionary blog for April 17, 2016 Fourth Sunday of Easter Acts 9:36-43; Psalm 23; Revelation 7:9-17; John 10:22-30 I recently conducted the funeral for a woman in her 90s who…
Photo: Niklaus Schillack, Church Relations Samaritas Kenneth Fouty, pastor of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Clawson, Mich., passes water to ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth A. Eaton on Sunday afternoon, April 3….
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