Filing an annual parochial report is a constitutional expectation of every congregation in the ELCA. It is an opportunity to be accountable to the community and to the wider church…
Filing an annual parochial report is a constitutional expectation of every congregation in the ELCA. It is an opportunity to be accountable to the community ...
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Dear Partners in Mission: “For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are ...
Read MoreCrises don’t create but reveal and deepen cracks in systems. In this letter, the ELCA CoB acknowledges and calls our church to see systemic racial ...
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In our NT-NL Synod, ELCA prayer and check-in today, we heard from our regional Portico (ELCA Benefit Services) representative Deacon Terri Endres. It was great to ...
Read MoreMy spouse’s congregation’s Easter theme has been “Gratitude and Grief.” It is a theme that speaks not only to the gospel stories of the Easter ...
Read MoreDear Partners in Mission: Monday May 25th we as a nation recognize Memorial Day. Observed since the end of the Civil War as “Decoration Day” ...
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There has been much lament of late about time spent on Zoom. Yet I have found in this time of learning that online allows me ...
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Dr. Michael Sorrell is President of Paul Quinn College where our 2020 NT-NL Synod, ELCA assembly was to be held. He wrote this article for the Chronicle ...
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Martin Junge has been a faithful and strong leader of The Lutheran World Federation. This week he announced he would be stepping down from this post in ...
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Today was a busy day of zoom and conference calls relating to congregation and ministry discernment about next steps toward in-person gatherings. It started with ...
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