He’s been widely quoted — and misquoted. People have claimed Bonhoeffer would support their side on issues ranging from the Vietnam War to post-9/11 militarism to same-sex marriage to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
Before Tim Walz and J.D. Vance took the debate stage on Tuesday, Faith for Harris-Walz held a vice presidential pre-show event featuring several influential religious leaders.
The ways Midwest Lutherans live that faith in the public sphere — on social and political hot-button issues — can be as different as a marshmallow-topped hotdish from a prickly pear cactus salad.
This issue of A Public Witness shows up like a hotdish with, dontcha know, a look at Minnesota Nice Lutherans and why, gosh darn it, the attacks on Walz’s church are worse than Wisconsin.
If elected, Walz would either be the first or second Lutheran vice president of the United States, depending on how you count it.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is one of several mainline denominations reckoning with the role they played in the federal boarding school system.
Faith offerings are plentiful and deep-rooted at the late-summer agricultural fairs that, nationwide, bring together 4-H children parading their prize animals and political candidates unleashing their ambitions.
The head of the country’s largest Lutheran denomination announced Wednesday that the ELCA is launching an initiative to help its members better understand the “colonizing impacts” the church has had.
The president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has called for the excommunication of unrepentant white supremacists in the church’s ranks, rebuking an extremist effort to exert influence within the conservative Lutheran denomination.
This issue of A Public Witness explores three examples of impactful denominational resolutions to show why it matters when Christians decide to speak with one voice. The model resolutions include two statements decrying the historic mistreatment of Indigenous peoples and a resolution about the war