Israel’s settler council is preying on vulnerable refugees from Ukraine, offering help and homes in West Bank settlements. Beneath the smiles, there’s a toxic message: Flee occupation, become occupiers I am looking at a leaflet in Russian distributed by the Judea and Samaria Council, the representative body for Israel’s West
The following first appeared on Public Square Magazine. No scholar would be taken seriously by considering only evidence that lined up with a preferred position. But that’s precisely what so many do in claiming historical and scientific evidence is damning to revealed faith. We hear so many claiming they “go
Where do you go after the extraordinary experience at Sinai? God tells the people ‘build an altar of earth’. R. Mordechai of Izbica tells us how to get down to earth. Simplicity: Getting Down to Earth | RSS.com Transformative Torah
Today’s post is written by Julie Grindle, Assistant to the Bishop for Candidacy and Mobility in the Upstate New York Synod of the ELCA. A past president of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians (ALCM), Julie also served on the Hymnody Working Group for All Creation Sings. This post was
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 prayer from the ELCA as together we pray for the needs of the world and give thanks for the ministries of our church.
Two words that stuck with me from my pastor’s sermon this past Sunday were grace and kindness. He ended the sermon by encouraging the members of the congregation to show grace and kindness to those in their lives, to those around them. Most of us would like to experience more
Fourth Sunday in Lent 9The LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away from you the disgrace of Egypt.” And so that place is called Gilgal to this day. 10While the Israelites were camped in Gilgal they kept the passover in the evening on the fourteenth day of the
A message from Tammy Jones West, 2024 ELCA Youth Gathering Program Director— I’m just, It’s just… Hello world. My name is Tammy Jones West. I am a Deacon in this church, from North Carolina, and I am serving as the Program Director for the 2024 ELCA Youth Gathering. I am