Stories, reflections and perspectives from diverse range of voices across the ELCA.
This year my partner, Kelly, and I started serving as ELCA global missionaries in Central Europe. As part of our orientation, we’re taking Hungarian language classes to better communicate with…
Member of an ELCA congregation in New Jersey (name and town omitted for privacy reasons) Author of Raising Kids Beyond the Binary: Celebrating God’s Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children (Broadleaf Books,…
Series editor’s note: Throughout 2023, “Deeper understandings” will feature biblical scholars reflecting on one of the books of the Old Testament. Rachel Wrenn will continue this theme in the next…
Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, to him be glory in…
“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world .… The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.” —W.B. Yeats,…
Editor’s note: This piece originally ran on March 7, 2018. We are rerunning it this year in observance of Disability Pride Month. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned,…
Growing up as the son of a U.S. Air Force chaplain in Rice Lake, Wis., Peter Muschinske grew accustomed to people telling him, “You’re going to be a pastor like…
If there’s such a thing as a classic Lutheran upbringing, it must resemble Greg Busboom’s childhood in Flatville, Ill. Busboom’s great-great-grandfather arrived in Flatville from Germany in 1874 and, with…
Editor’s note: This post, written by ELCA Disability Ministries Advisory Team member Peter Heide from a perspective of blindness, was originally published on the ELCA Disability Ministries blog. American organizations created…
I remember that day well. On July 4, 1983, when I was 8 years old, I was moved to the Thu Duc Orphanage, on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh…
Imagine the Mekong River as it winds through Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam to the South China Sea. A unique riverscape with houses on stilts, fishermen tossing nets, gilded temples and…
The Gospel reading for the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost offers a promise many might crave. In Matthew 11:28, Jesus says, “I will give you rest.” In this passage, Jesus addresses…
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