1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (239+ words) Every day, Living Lutheranoffers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource "Prayer ventures," which can be downloadedhere. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs of…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago  (480+ words) Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, Cocoa Beach, Fla. Retired executive vice president and chief operating officer, Hyatt Vacation Ownership There were no "typical days" in my position, but they were filled with meetings, site visits, presentations and difficult decisions. Our…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (591+ words) Yehiel Curry, presiding bishop of the ELCA, has issued a statement about the deadly attack at the Islamic Center of San Diego earlier this week. The statement continued: "As the ELCA, we must speak plainly: violence rooted in hatred is…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago  (342+ words) Justin Grimm, St. Paul, Minn. , was elected May 16 to serve a six-year term as bishop of the Saint Paul Area Synod of the ELCA. The election took place during the synod assembly, May 15-16 at St. Andrew Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi,…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago  (283+ words) Joy Mortensen-Wiebe, Madison, Wis. , was reelected May 16 to serve a second six-year term as bishop of the'South-Central Synod of Wisconsin of the ELCA. The election took place during the synod assembly, May 15-16 at Woodman's Sports & Convention Center in Janesville, Wis....

5+ day, 15+ hour ago  (664+ words) Lu Min provides the Tailgate Tuesday meal as part of its greater feeding ministry for the students, staff and other residents of the UT Austin campus. Forty-seven percent of the student body is food-insecure'a need that some on campus say…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago  (725+ words) Community leaders, clergy and public officials gathered March 14 at Christ Lutheran Church of Staten Island, N. Y. , to officially launch the Salam Radio Station, the first Arabic Christian ecumenical online media platform in the United States. The launch comes as violence and…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (965+ words) Vicki Garlock was making her way through her morning read of Religion News Service when she came across a story about a man who earned a Guinness World Records title by visiting 76 places of worship in one month. She thought,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (448+ words) Editor's note: This post originally appeared on the ELCA Advocacy blog." What is at stake in the electoral process? For Lutherans, our response is not exclusively individualistic. "The faith community has played a pivotal role in the multigenerational struggle to…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (1126+ words) Editor's note: In this second installment of a three-part Living Lutheran series, Deanna Kim Bassett, an ELCA pastor, reflects on her family's experience of Japanese American incarceration'and what those stories require of a church called to confront fear, exclusion and…...