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Voices of Faith
Gifts from the past
Editor’s note: This year the ELCA celebrates 50 years of Lutheran women’s ordination in the United States, 40 years of the ordination of Lutheran women of color and 10 years…
Prayer Ventures
Prayer ventures: Aug. 8
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 life…
Faith in Action
Meeting the challenge of urban unrest
Series editor’s note: Throughout 2020, “Deeper understandings” will engage the ELCA’s commitment to authentic diversity. This month’s piece is excerpted from an article originally published in Lutheran Quarterly in May…
Mission & Ministry
Church Together – Apart: Our Response to COVID – Washington
In Lynden, Wash., Hope Lutheran Church’s Backpack Buddies ministry increased its work to ensure children and families had enough to eat during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. An…
Voices of Faith
My take: Incomplete and at home
My husband left the bathtub spigot running one day in late March. We had just hunkered down in quarantine, our high school student daughter and college student son shifting to…
Prayer Ventures
Prayer ventures: Aug. 1
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 life…
Voices of Faith
Fire in my bones
We kept the doors of Holy Trinity propped open all night. In our fellowship room, medics tended those wounded during the protests. Soon the impromptu clinic spilled onto our front…
Mission & Ministry
Serving with faith
“Though God desires fullness of life and equity for everyone, as a church we recognize that women and girls in particular suffer a range of harm and injustice due to…
Prayer Ventures
Prayer ventures: July 21
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 life…
Voices of Faith
Remembering those behind bars during COVID-19
Editor’s note: COVID-19 has uniquely impacted communities of color and their lives and ministries. In this series, we will feature ELCA Racial Justice reflections from each of the ELCA Ethnic Specific and Multicultural Ministries associations,…
Voices of Faith
Grateful for the journey
Editor’s note: This year the ELCA celebrates 50 years of Lutheran women’s ordination in the United States, 40 years of the ordination of Lutheran women of color and 10 years…
Voices of Faith
Ministry for the whole person
It was the last session of a retreat with high school youth. We sat still together in the chapel, which was nestled in the beautiful landscape that many have come…