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…
St. Paul Lutheran Church, Wheaton, Ill. President and CEO, Northern Illinois Food Bank I pray for courage and strength, for protection for my children and healing for those who are…
Numbering in the millions yet often invisible, incarcerated Americans may soon feel less forgotten as a new spiritual resource works its way inside the nation’s myriad gray prison walls. The…
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…
We live in a violent world. While God’s call for peace among humans is definitive, stories of sin in the form of violence are easy to find across the history…
In a key action taken Aug. 7, the 2019 ELCA Churchwide Assembly voted to approve a memorial that declares the ELCA a sanctuary church. The ELCA is the first North…
On day two of its gathering, the 2019 ELCA Churchwide Assembly took key actions and received reports that set the stage for how the church wants to move into the…
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…
Lamentably, violence permeates much of our culture and poisons the well-being of too many individuals, families and communities. Of course, violence is a problem worldwide, but it’s especially sorrowful here…
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…
Editor’s note: In his book Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the U.S. (Fortress Press, 2019), Lenny Duncan offers a vision for…
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