Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here for daily Prayer Ventures. These petitions are offered as a guide for…
When Len first came to St. Matthew Trinity Lutheran Church’s Lunchtime Ministry in Hoboken, N.J., it was as a last resort. Born in Jersey City in 1959, Len (last name…
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…
With a median household income of more than $63,000, the United States is one of the wealthiest nations in the world, and yet 11% of our households were at risk…
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…
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…
“Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves, and to others, the inner vision which guides us as…
Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness? (Job 38:17) This verse reverberated in my soul during the apex of…
Watching strangers Andrew Papke and Adrian Early shake hands and exchange pleasantries would seem ordinary—if you didn’t know that this was a meeting between a man whose drunk driving killed…
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…
A Portland congregation is spearheading an all-inclusive, grassroots legislative effort to make Oregon residents safer from firearms and to inspire a national movement to quell gun violence. Augustana Lutheran Church…
Kay Ressel, an ELCA pastor and director of Lutheran Lakota Shared Ministries (LLSM), says a pillar of her ministry is to “hold people accountable for how they engage in ministry.”…
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