Series editor’s note: Throughout 2021, “Deeper understandings” will continue to engage the ELCA’s commitment to authentic diversity. Vance Blackfox will carry on this theme next month. —Kathryn A. Kleinhans, dean…
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…
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…
One night the book I was reading to our kids at bedtime led to a conversation about how some kids mock others to make themselves feel better. Low self-esteem can…
Elizabeth A. Eaton, presiding bishop of the ELCA, has issued a statement urging the Biden administration to vigorously pursue actions granting protection to migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. “In…
Elizabeth A. Eaton, presiding bishop of the ELCA, has co-signed with other heads of churches from Churches Beyond Borders a letter on the legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery. In…
Series editor’s note: Throughout 2021, “Deeper understandings” will continue to engage the ELCA’s commitment to authentic diversity. Kenneth Wheeler will carry on this theme next month. Established by law in…
Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. My father taught me how to pray the Lord’s Prayer when I was a little girl—much too young…
The morning after the 2016 presidential election, Bruce MacKenzie had a line from the “Prayer of St. Francis” running through his mind: “To be understood as to understand.” “When a…
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…
With a global pandemic, a tumultuous election and social justice issues coming to the fore over the past year, many have found themselves engaged in difficult conversations with family, friends,…
Editor’s note: Stephen Bouman was bishop of the ELCA Metropolitan New York Synod at the time of the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. On Sept. 11, 2001, we in…
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