Series editor’s note: In 2025, “Deeper understandings”  will focus on the ELCA social statements. We hope to reintroduce them to readers as a means of provoking fruitful,…

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures (the prayers for the entire month can be downloaded here). These daily petitions are offered…

Editor’s note: This article was originally published by the Lutheran World Federation as its 2024 Christmas message to the worldwide communion of churches.  “When they had heard the king, they…

We listened—print is coming back There are few instances where we can recall people publicly admitting they were wrong, though as humans we should be saying that…

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures (the prayers for the entire month can be downloaded here). These daily petitions are offered…

The new film Bonhoeffer has put the German theologian in the news again and has sparked plenty of controversy. The International Bonhoeffer Society and members of the…

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures (the prayers for the entire month can be downloaded here). These daily petitions are offered…

In Ein Karem, Israel, figures of a pregnant Mary and Elizabeth are shown in front of a wall where plaques with the text of the “Magnificat” appear…

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures (the prayers for the entire month can be downloaded here). These daily petitions are offered…