Living Lutheran Weekly Email Digest

Recovery and replanting On Aug. 10, a derecho—a powerful line of thunderstorms with severe winds—swept through the Midwest, with wind speeds reaching as high as 126 mph in Iowa. In Cedar Rapids, nearly every home … continue I'm a Lutheran: Fuad Nijim Grace Lutheran Church, Palo Alto, Calif. Finance and administration, Stanford (Calif.) University Department of Radiology; lay leader with the Association of Lutherans of Arab and Middle Eastern … continue Laura Barbins elected bishop of the ELCA Northeastern Ohio Synod Laura Barbins, Mentor, Ohio, was elected Sept. 12 to serve a six-year term as bishop of the Northeastern Ohio Synod of the ELCA. The election took place during an online synod assembly. Barbins … continue