Stories, reflections and perspectives from diverse range of voices across the ELCA.
Editor’s note: This post was originally published on the ELCA Racial Justice blog. I was 4 years old when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. I was too young to understand the import…
I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you…
Sue and I approached the first house with trepidation. I had some paper and a pen in my hands, she balanced a tote bag full of plates of cookies carefully…
(There are some spoilers for the film The Banshees of Inisherin ahead.) Colm Doherty cares about important things. A lifelong resident of the fictional Irish island Inisherin, Colm has spent his…
Last Christmas a corner of Chicago’s Wrigley Field was transformed into an ice skating rink. Skating at the rink was a far cry from the ice skating I did on…
When I dieted, I’d think about food all day. I tried many things, but for me the easiest was to divide every single food into strict categories: “good” and “bad,”…
Iain Chester wondered how members of Gen Z experience meaning and purpose, and what those answers mean to the ELCA. Patrick Nagaro worked with a group that explored bringing to…
Our baby boy came early. We knew he would; our obstetrician had planned the induction two weeks before our due date. And then, as babies tend to do, he didn’t…
But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for see—I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: to you is born this day…
Editor’s note: This article was originally published by the Lutheran World Federation as its 2022 Christmas message to the worldwide communion of churches. For many of us, our earliest and…
In you alone, O God, we hope, and not in our own merit. We rest our fears in your good Word and trust your Holy Spirit. Your promise keeps us…
I remember one Sunday in church when my father was preaching. He was getting all sorts of heated and passionate in the pulpit, you know, totally un-Lutheran in style. Back then…
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