Grafted to The Root: The Gift of ALCM for Music Ministry
Today’s post is by Omaldo Perez, Director of Music at Zoar Lutheran Church in Perrysburg, Ohio. Grafting, as a horticultural technique, is defined as the joining of different plant tissues in a manner that makes possible their future growth together....
Worship Resources for the 50th Anniversary of the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Robert Moore is a rostered pastor in the ELCA serving Global Missions in Leipzig and Wittenberg where he is director of the ELCA Wittenberg Center. In the summer of 2017 the Protestant Church of Germany (EKD) reached out to...
Riding through the Three Days Together
Today’s post is by the Rev. Anne Edison-Albright, College Pastor at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. My daughter, Sally, is four years old, and very interested in and concerned about Jesus’ death. At her favorite museum there’s a large crucifix and a...
The Liturgical Assembly as the Embodied Presence of Christ in the World
Today’s post is by Shane R. Brinegar, a PhD candidate at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. The church is not a building or a complicated bureaucratic structure, but an embodied community gathered around bread, water, wine and word—signs...
Ash Wednesday on Valentine’s Day
Today’s post is by Tim Knauff, Jr., Senior Pastor of Christ Lutheran Church, Valparaiso, Indiana. By now you’ve probably been asked, half-jokingly, if you will be celebrating Ash Wednesday or Valentine’s Day on the 14th. For me it was...
Merry Christmas from the ELCA Worship Staff
We are called to ponder mystery and await the coming Christ, to embody God’s compassion for each fragile human life. God is with us in our longing to bring healing to the earth, while we watch with joy and...