In the country’s most secular state, tiny congregations have made a big impact by their disaster response. For weeks, Tárik Rodriguez had been working on bringing a…

Bryan J. Penman, Conshohocken, Pa., was elected May 4 to serve a six-year term as bishop of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod. The election took place during the…

The controversial iPad ad proves that technology can indeed flatten—or crush—what is real. A recent advertisement from Apple for the new iPad Pro has somehow managed to…

Matthew Warner, who had tweeted about gay marriage, is the latest in a string of Christian college faculty who have lost their jobs after being accused of…

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your…

Christian urban designers and developers explain how their faith affects their work—and how their work affects your faith. The design of our communities shapes how we interact…

From almost the very beginning of our children’s lives, we invite them to make art: crayons, markers, paints and so many pieces of paper. When they get…

Mourning miscarriage means acknowledging the particular life that’s been lost. You’re young. You can try again,” the phlebotomist says as he sticks a needle in my arm….

The champion of “native missions” trained more than 100,000 evangelists but got in trouble for financial mismanagement. Athanasius Yohannan, who built one of the world’s largest mission…

In May, we celebrate National AAPI Heritage Month. The Asian and Pacific Islander Ministries of the ELCA, in conjunction with the Minneapolis Area Synod, the St. Paul…