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 own prayer life as together we pray for the needs of the world and give thanks for the ministries of our church. Sunday,
One of the most famous statements about Torah study, found in multiple places in the Talmud and in the daily morning prayer service, is Talmud Torah k’neged kulam, which means “the study of Torah surpasses them all.” The “all” is typically understood to mean the rest of the mitzvot. Torah
Double Vocation: Priest and Scientist Erich Wasmann, a Jesuit priest and accomplished scientist, was one of the leading voices in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century championing the compatibility of the theory of evolution with the Christian faith. There can be little doubt that his influence helped obtain for
All Hallows Evening Prayer is a service of worship in the evening for all pilgrims on the journey to the heavenly city. God not only dwells in heaven, but he also dwells in us. In our innermost self, God makes his home. The Scripture reading for this Sunday is Luke
In his description of love in his first letter to the Corinthians the apostle Paul lists several attitudes and behaviors which are not characteristic of the kind of love that Jesus teaches his disciples to show one another. They include rudeness. When we are rude, we behave in a way
By the Rev. Amy E. Reumann, Senior Director, Witness in Society A year ago, I watched the storming of the U.S. Capitol with horror – outraged at the violence and assault on our democracy, fearful for the lives of public servants and appalled at the proliferation of Christian language and symbols
Stained glass of John Wesley at the World Methodist Council Museum, formerly at Lake Junaluska, North Carolina. Photo by Steve Beard. In honor of the passing of our friend Dr. William J. Abraham, we are republishing an address he presented at the 1995 national gathering of the Confessing Movement Within
Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. We offer these petitions as a guide for your prayer life as together we pray for the needs of the world and give thanks for the ministries of our church. Thursday, Jan. 6