Stories, reflections and perspectives from diverse range of voices across the ELCA.
Emanuel Lutheran Church, Council Bluffs, Iowa 11th-grader at Abraham Lincoln High School, Council Bluffs I pray for others who may not be as healthy as me, for people who don’t…
“You might have much of the world’s riches, and you might hold a portion of authority, but if you have no Ubuntu, you do not amount to much.” —Archbishop Desmond…
The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language. The Lutheran Study Bible. The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the second attempt at the Revised Standard Version. The terribly conceived…
Last May, I stumbled upon a Facebook post that announced Viviane Thomas-Breitfeld had been elected bishop of the South-Central Synod of Wisconsin. I was stunned; I had no idea her…
When the polar vortex hit Minnesota, our weekend crawled on for six days, Jan. 26-31. Where we live, even the mail was suspended on the coldest day. My kids kept…
And a voice came from heaven … (Mark 1:11). Upon returning to church after a long absence, the writer Nora Gallagher spent the whole first year crying. She would receive…
I first learned of Marie Kondo from my husband. At the time, we were relocating from one apartment to another before closing on our first home. Packing put Jay and…
On Jan. 6 the Western church observes Epiphany, the revelation of Jesus to the magi, who represent all nations. The Time after Epiphany is marked by more revelation stories in…
African, African diasporic and African American Lutheran women are in a cultural moment of reclaiming our feminine ase—a West African term meaning the power to make things happen. We are…
Immanuel Lutheran Church, Almelund, Minn. Immanuel choir director, pianist and organist. Keyboardist at another church primarily made up of Liberian immigrants. Group home caregiver. I pray for peace, tolerance and…
When I was a child, I needed a night-light and open bedroom door to let in light from the hallway so I could fall asleep. Even then, the remaining shadowy…
A Nov. 23 article from Reuters tells of a special vacation in Hungcheon, South Korea, where, for $90 per night, one can be locked in a prison cell, away from…
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