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Exodus: An eternal promise

Jan 8, 2024 | livinglutheran.org | Rolf Jacobson |Jim Jones

Series editor’s note: During 2023, “Deeper understandings” has featured biblical scholars reflecting on one of the books of the Old Testament. This is the final entry in the series. —Kathryn A. Kleinhans, dean of Trinity Lutheran Seminary at Capital University, Columbus, Ohio, on behalf of the ELCA’s seminariesExodus combines all the elements to make it a favorite book of the Bible: high drama, friends in low places, holy callings, essential theology, covenantal promise and basic divine law.
Exodus: An eternal promise

Dec 27, 2023 | livinglutheran.org | Rolf Jacobson |Jim Jones

Series editor’s note: During 2023, “Deeper understandings” has featured biblical scholars reflecting on one of the books of the Old Testament. This is the final entry in the series. —Kathryn A. Kleinhans, dean of Trinity Lutheran Seminary at Capital University, Columbus, Ohio, on behalf of the ELCA’s seminariesExodus combines all the elements to make it a favorite book of the Bible: high drama, friends in low places, holy callings, essential theology, covenantal promise and basic divine law.
My take: In those days

Dec 25, 2023 | livinglutheran.org | Mary Anderson |Jim Jones

In those days when I was a kid in the 1960s, Christmas was magical and merry. In these days it can seem raw and real. Once, with little empathy or anxiety, we could hear the Scriptures tell of the Romans occupying Palestine, of Mary and Joseph being hotel-less in Bethlehem. We could read the refugee story of the holy family fleeing to Egypt, and most of us who were white Americans with no personal experience to match such things simply passed by those raw realities on the other side of the road.
Embrace the fire

Oct 2, 2023 | livinglutheran.org | Jim Jones

Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you (Isaiah 43:1-2). Beloveds, burnout is real. Burnout in ministry is real.
My take: Lessons from the Ghost Dancers

Sep 28, 2023 | livinglutheran.org | Steven Charleston |Jim Jones

Editor’s note: This modified excerpt from Steven Charleston’s We Survived the End of the World: Lessons From Native America on Apocalypse and Hope (Broadleaf Books, 2023) is reprinted with permission. The Native Hopi tradition, along with that of all Indigenous people, is living proof that human beings can live in a loving relationship with the earth. The benefits of that balanced relationship are clear. The earth can provide enough for all to share. Environmental apocalypse can be averted.
I'm a Lutheran: Richard Nesbit

Sep 15, 2023 | livinglutheran.org | John Potter |Jim Jones

St. Luke Lutheran Church, New York CityFounder, Let’s Send These Kids to School; digital art manager, Carolina Human ReinvestmentI have been a member of St Luke Lutheran Church of Times Square for over 25 years. Visiting my recently widowed father in March 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, I found myself displaced to South Carolina. I became very much involved in the creation of a community garden, sponsored by Carolina Human Reinvestment.
Love and service

Sep 11, 2023 | livinglutheran.org | Candice Hill Buchbinder |Jim Jones

“Probably my greatest joy is to be able to combine my nursing career with my faith journey by sharing my expertise and experience in health care along with the hope and comfort of the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ,” said Sue Ann Glusenkamp, a faith community nurse for almost 12 years who currently serves Augustana Lutheran Church in Denver.
I'm a Lutheran: Jamie Bruesehoff

Aug 25, 2023 | livinglutheran.org | Jim Jones

Member of an ELCA congregation in New Jersey (name and town omitted for privacy reasons)Author of Raising Kids Beyond the Binary: Celebrating God’s Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children (Broadleaf Books, 2023), LGBTQ+ advocate and ELCA Church Council memberMy earliest memory of church is actually from church camp. I started going to Cross Roads Camp and Retreat Center (formerly Camp Beisler) in New Jersey at 5 years old. My older sister went before me, and my mom attended before her.
What it means to break bread

Aug 24, 2023 | livinglutheran.org | Cara Strickland |Jim Jones

Spend time reading the Bible and you’ll find an abundance of references to bread. It’s little surprise, then, that the topic captured the attention of Meghan Murphy-Gill, an Episcopal priest and former journalist. Her new book, The Sacred Life of Bread: Uncovering the Mystery of an Ordinary Loaf (Broadleaf Books, 2023), follows that loaf from a tiny seed to the moment you bite into a warm slice.
God's work. Our hands.

Aug 10, 2023 | livinglutheran.org | Jim Jones

Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen (Ephesians 3:20-21).