Mothering God: A Reflection on Mother’s Day in Worship
Today’s post is by Amanda Highben who serves as Pastor at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Dublin, Ohio. Mothering God, you gave me birth in the bright morning of this world. Creator, source of ev’ry breath, you are my...
Persistence, Presence, and Proclamation
Today’s post is by Rev. Amy E. Reumann, Director of Advocacy for the ELCA. The Feast of Pentecost starts with a blast of fast rushing wind. The season itself can seem to go on forever. Entering my first parish call, a...
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...