When Farris Turner attended the Global Worker Gathering, she didn’t expect to leave with a calling. As one of our Global Workers shared on stage, a question pressed into her heart: What if you were a Global Worker? Why don’t you go? Her first response wasn’t bold confidence. It was
In this week’s Sermon Notes Podcast, Jay Strother and Brian Ball walk through 1 Peter 2:18–25 and explore what it means to find hope when suffering is real and circumstances are unjust. Peter’s instruction on submission can feel challenging, especially when authority is imperfect, but the passage reframes submission as
Augsburg Fortress is the publishing ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Each month ELCA Worship highlights resources from Augsburg Fortress Publishers that support worship leaders, worship planners, musicians, and all who care about the worship of the church. ELCA Worship also features resources from other partners in a monthly
For Jeremy Johnson and his wife, Mary Beth, giving didn’t start with joy—it started with survival. After getting married, they found themselves chasing what Jeremy calls the “Brentwood lifestyle,” and before long, that pursuit led to significant debt. They knew giving mattered, but their understanding of it was narrow and
Once upon a time, not even in this century, in the increasingly more remote Anno Domini 1999, I was a freshman in college. And I read a book in French literature class that I somehow still remember rather well. It was the essay collection Mythologies by the twentieth-century French cultural critic
For more than seventy years, a simple act of generosity has returned each Christmas season to the skies over Micronesia. What began in 1952 as a spontaneous gesture by U.S. Air Force airmen has become the Department of Defense’s longest-running humanitarian airlift mission—and for the past decade, members of The
Justified by Faith: Why the Details Matter — A Lesson from Making Bread — By James R. Morrow — How hard could it be? I had just tasted one of the best slices of homemade bread I’d ever eaten. Perfect texture, with a delightful taste (especially when slathered in butter!).
November is Native American Heritage Month. Racial Justice Ministries seeks to lift up the voices and work of our Indigenous siblings by highlighting the many events hosted by the ELCA’s Indigenous Ministries and Tribal Relations. We especially want to draw attention to the following two events: 15th Annual Vine