Stories, reflections and perspectives from diverse range of voices across the ELCA.
As is often noted, there are five women mentioned (if not all by name—sorry, Bathsheba) in the Matthew genealogy of Jesus: Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba and Mary. I want to…
I went to see The Big Sick knowing very little about it except that it wasn’t a “normal” romantic comedy. At least, that was what everyone said: my friends posting…
In part one, we explored how the four kinds of earth mentioned in the parable of the sower—rocky soil, thorny soil, the path and good soil—are created as a response…
“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God—not the result of works, so that no one…
We all come from different places. When we read the Bible, we use our own contexts to imagine the scenes in our heads. This can be helpful for personalizing the…
This year we observe the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. We might do more justice to the goal of Martin Luther and others who worked with…
Editor’s note: This article is the fourth in a four-part series exploring the relevance of Martin Luther’s catechism for our lives today. Now that I am staring 50 in the…
I have a close friend, an atheist, who helps keep my faith life honest and searching. A very Christ-like person in many ways, his questions are always rather pointed. I’m…
For me, a powerful part of the Sunday liturgy is that short silence observed most weeks during the confession at the beginning of the service. We’ll belt out something mostly…
I grew up going to a Lutheran church several times a week, and it was one of my favorite things to do. I still love a good Lutheran liturgy, but…
Cemeteries simultaneously fill me with fear and awe. I’m not ashamed to admit that you wouldn’t find me walking alone at night in a cemetery, but I’m also not ashamed…
On the final Sunday of August we’ll hear the prophet Isaiah urge us to “look to the rock from which you were hewn” (Isaiah 51:1). In these late summer Sundays,…
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