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Mission & Ministry
Hope at Easter
Born in Jerusalem, Rodny Saïd felt called to serve the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL). “I felt my call was specifically to one geographical point…
Mission & Ministry
Study guide: A welcome respite
Often risking life and limb to come to the United States for safety and a new life, asylum-seeking families arrive only to find that their long hard journey is not…
Voices of Faith
Christ, the wall breacher
“For [Christ] is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us” (Ephesians 2:14)….
Faith in Action
Cloaks and palms
From Spirit in the Hills Lutheran Church in Spicewood, Texas, to First Lutheran Church of San Diego, some ELCA congregations are adding clothing donations to their Palm Sunday processionals, linking…
Faith in Action
Shaping the church for the COVID-19 generation
What happens in childhood doesn’t stay in childhood. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, as my husband and I improvise a school routine for our children at home,…
Faith in Action
When faith is a verb
“I was—I am—an alcoholic,” said Melody Gulbrantson. “On my own, I entered an AA recovery program. My sister cared for my children, but my son gave her trouble. I took…
Prayer Ventures
Prayer ventures: March 30
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
ELCA presiding bishop announces Covid-19 response
ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton has announced the launch of a comprehensive Covid-19 response across the ELCA beginning today. The three approaches named are: Daily Bread Grants “ELCA World Hunger is…
Mission & Ministry
I heard it on the radio
It can be difficult to disseminate information throughout Nepal, which is monetarily poor, geographically diverse, educationally unsound yet multilingual. To distribute life lessons there, one innovative social organization is using…
Faith in Action
My take: Lutheran witness needed now, more than ever
In March 2016, I was asked to write an article for Living Lutheran about the emerging split in our nation’s culture, especially the widening gap in our political ideologies. Since…
Prayer Ventures
Prayer ventures: March 24
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…
Mission & Ministry
“Strength and resilience”
Erin Magoon, a junior at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn., said that before May 2019, she knew little about the history of women’s ordination in the Lutheran church. Determined to…
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