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Cultivating creativity
School funding hasn’t fully recovered from the economic recession of 2007 to 2009. Since then, at least 26 states budget less per student, according to the Center on Budget and…
Prayer Ventures
April 28
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…
Voices of Faith
The waters of baptism
Series editor’s note: Most who write for “Deeper understandings” are full-time professors at our seminaries, colleges and universities. The majority of the church’s “resident theologians,” of course, are parish pastors…
Mission & Ministry
Nepal: Life after the earthquake
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,…
Mission & Ministry
Eco-evangelism in action
The time has come, James White believes, for Lutherans to engage in a new type of evangelism. As a professor of geological sciences and environmental studies at the University of…
Faith in Action
A gift of life
Bonnie Meeder and Valarie Remmers knew each other for many years as members of King of Glory Lutheran Church, Dallas. They would see each other at church events and Sunday…
Mission & Ministry
ELCA members change lives with veterans’ court program
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…
Prayer Ventures
April 19
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…
Faith in Action
Deadly earthquakes strike
A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the northern coast of Ecuador April 16, killing more than 240 people and injuring more than 2,500 people. According to Ecuador’s seismological institute, more than…
Prayer Ventures
April 18
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…
Lectionary Blog
Lectionary blog: ‘Make no distinction between them and us’
Lectionary blog for April 24, 2016 Fifth Sunday of Easter Acts 11:1-18, Psalm 148, Revelation 21:1-6, John 13:31-35 My sister and her husband attend a church that is part of…
Faith in Action
Fathoming the depth of the Eucharist
It was good homemade, fiber-rich, deep-dark flatbread. I was given a fairly healthy chunk, and I knew it would be tasty. But the little bit of wine soaked up in…
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