Women of the ELCA Blog

It’s graduation party season. There is one ceremony that I can’t wait to attend. The pre-school graduation of my 5-year-old nephew, Gavin.

Gavin is totally obsessed with being a pirate. When we go in public he wears a bandana and a pirate hat. He even wears a holster for his sword. His dad gave him

The month of May brings a lot more than flowers. Last week, May 12- 18, was Women’s Health Week. May is also National Health Awareness & Observances Month. So, what does this mean? You don’t have to run out and join a health club or an aerobics class.

The month’s awareness and observances includes—

Anxiety Disorders Screening,

Are your Sunday worship services predictable?

If your worship services are anything like the ones at my church, you probably follow one of the hymnal’s communion settings, you probably have a choir or a cantor lead the opening liturgy, and you probably have lay assistants help the pastor(s) lead worship. This is how it is at

Have you ever heard of a “Proverbs 31 Woman?” That term was new to me when I encountered it in A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband “Master” by Rachel Held Evans. What do “biblical

As so often is the case, writer Anne Lamott has said it better than I could. In a recent Facebook post, Lamott wrote

If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to write, and were pretty good at it, will it break

It made the headlines. I have not heard much of an uproar about it. Not even on Facebook.  Maybe it happened too fast? It happened in one day.

There was anguish in the halls of Congress over the long lines at airports and the flight delays caused by the furlough of air-traffic controllers so Congress strapped

Last weekend I was privileged to attend the Metro DC SWO (synodical women’s organization) spring convention where I met many who are loyal and dedicated to Women of the ELCA. Like several SWOs, these women are worried about their numbers, both financial and human.

The theme of the conference was Communication: Vertical and

I read a lot of blogs. Not counting this one, I check in with at least 49 blogs daily. Using Blogshelf, a RSS reader app on my iPad, I organize and read those 49 blogs. I read blogs about quilting (the largest group of blogs I read), tea, writing, non-profit marketing (the