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…
Young people in the church today know what they want from faith-based institutions. If a church offers relationships, mentors, authenticity and political engagement, they’ll stay, often becoming leaders who will…
I first heard about “spiritual direction” from the best of my classmates during our first year in seminary. These seminarians were seeking spiritual directors for ongoing discernment, ministry formation and…
Editor’s note: This piece originally ran on June 6, 2o19. Our June 2019 cover story, “Worship 101,” examined the “whats, whys and hows” of ELCA worship. We continued the story…
In the world’s northernmost settlement of Longyearbyen, Norway, in the Svalbard archipelago, Siv Limstrand serves as pastor of Svalbard Church—a congregation in the Church of Norway, a Lutheran World Federation…
Browsing through my work journal recently, I noticed the date when my entries stopped: March 19, 2020. The next week the Chicago-based churchwide staff began sheltering in place. I remember…
When the Florida-Bahamas Synod decided to give $956,251 to ELCA churchwide ministries, the amount wasn’t arbitrary. It was a “tithe”—10%—of the proceeds from a sale of real estate that netted…
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…
When I lived in Jerusalem, I dipped into the Old City a few times a week to visit my favorite falafel stand. Frequently I would encounter a human traffic jam…
They call her “Big Mama.” It’s probably not the most common of titles used by church members for their pastors, but it works here. Mary Louise Frenchman might be “Pastor…
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…
As the pandemic eases its grip on our world, life is settling into a new normal that may spell difficulty to many churches. People who stayed away from congregational life…
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