Recent Posts

  • Index of the January 2024 Issue

    Issue 91 of Administration Matters Registration for the 2024 Gathering, MYLE, the tAble, and Young Adult Gathering is currently open! The ELCA Youth Gathering and Young Adult Gathering will take place in New Orleans on July 16-20, with MYLE and the tAble taking place immediately before on July 13-16. We’re

  • Psalm 86

    ​1Incline your ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. 2Preserve my life, for I am devoted to you; save your servant who trusts in you. You are my God; 3be gracious to me, O LORD, for to you do I cry all day long. 4Gladden

  • Week 2, Day 6 | Esau and Jacob

    Using the daily reading prompts from George H. Guthrie’s Read the Bible for Life, here’s how to use this devotional: Bring your Bible!  Your kids need to see that everything you are reading to them or learning about comes from an actual Bible! Each day starts with a reading prompt.  Read

  • Homer and the Poetry of Forgiveness

    Forgiveness is a poetic act. I am going to explain and support this claim in various ways, but here at the start, I want to turn to an unlikely source, the ancient and very pagan epic poet Homer. Forgiveness would seem to be a fundamentally Christian practice—“if you forgive others