Prayer ventures: Feb. 28
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: Feb. 28

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…
Study guide: They may not come back
Study Guides

Study guide: They may not come back

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…
Throwing doors wide open
Living Faithfully

Throwing doors wide open

For one congregation in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, the three-man-weave drill in basketball has taken on greater meaning. Elementary-age players at Abiding Presence Lutheran incorporate Jesus’ parables into their…
A unique Three Kings celebration
Living Faithfully

A unique Three Kings celebration

On Jan. 6, St. Paul Lutheran Church/Iglesia Luterana San Pablo in Minneapolis held a unique Three Kings Day celebration as part of the Feast of Epiphany. The celebration included music,…
Contemplating the new year
Spiritual Resources

Contemplating the new year

Two years into a global pandemic, the toll on human life and livelihood is undeniable, and the toll on mental, emotional and spiritual health is no less profound. Enormous shifts…
Hybrid church
Spiritual Resources

Hybrid church

The church’s digital reformation began the morning of Friday, March 13, 2020. Following the declaration of the pandemic as a national emergency, congregations across the country swiftly moved their worship…
“Many ways to be connected”
Living Faithfully

“Many ways to be connected”

As ELCA congregations offer in-person and hybrid services this Advent and Christmas, many have expressed thanks for the online worship support that the ELCA worship team provided during the early…
A look back and a look forward
Mission & Ministry

A look back and a look forward

Emily Landon understood the ramifications of COVID-19 before most people in the United States had even heard of the respiratory virus. Landon, an adult infectious disease physician and executive medical…
Study guide: Hybrid church
Study Guides

Study guide: Hybrid church

The COVID-19 pandemic has plunged even some of the most technology-resistant churches into the world of digital worship. Swimming in the waters of online worship and finding them 1) not…
Polish Lutheran church votes to ordain women pastors
Living Faithfully

Polish Lutheran church votes to ordain women pastors

In an Oct. 16 decision, the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland (ECACP) allowed women to be ordained as pastors. Forty-five members of the church’s synod voted in…