Elizabeth Hunter

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I'm an associate editor for The Lutheran. I also serve as editor of The Little Lutheran and its sister publication, The Little Christian. Both are intended to nurture the faith of people aged 6 and younger. Check it out, subscribe and let us know what you think. Amber Leberman (who art directs the children's magazines) and I are open to making changes based on your suggestions.

My favorite part of this calling is leaving my desk to visit other ELCA members who serve in congregations and church-related ministries. I enjoy hearing about their vocations, joys, challenges, and how Christ keeps them going.

I attend Holy Family Lutheran Church in Chicago, with my two sons, ages 6 and 3, who love stories, music and the church—just like their mom.

• A house for the sick
  Lutheran hospital cares for the poor in Papua New Guinea
• A life saved
• Hunger giving is down
• Your love has called us
  The Spirit sings through Brian Wren's hymns
• Fear and faith in Colombia
  Lutherans aid the displaced and seek policies to end the violence
• Lewis to head Augsburg Fortress
• God's holy temple
  In Papua New Guinea, the church is a place to learn about God and HIV/AIDS prevention
• We have changed
  Our worldview is considerably altered since Sept. 11
• Guatemalan Lutherans face attacks
• Nourished, not swamped
• Looking death in the face
  Palestinian Lutherans struggle to hold on
• Grounding fliers in faith
• Peaceful protest
• Israeli troops occupy Lutheran school
• Synod staff try to help
• LCMS board gags its press
• Judging the call process
• 'It's a family'
• ELCA raises $6 million for 9/11
• Fla. congregation installs noncelibate gay man
• Home-front fear
  Waiting, worry are part of a military family's life
• What it feels like at Salam Arabic Lutheran Church
• Study examines religion on an ELCA campus
• Sexuality task force to meet with consultants
• Tug o' religion
  Wartburg College chapel renovation exposes underlying faith tensions
• Women called to 'conspire'
• 'Every person of faith should care'
  Kristine M. Gebbie, former AIDS czar:
• Synod bishop censures St. Paul congregations
  They face consequences for calling non-rostered people to pastoral ministry
• Singing by the sea
  After Sierra Leone's civil war, Lutherans offer hope and relief
• Signs from God
• 'We want it to be known'
• Farm crisis: 'Seize the moment'
• A silk road to self-reliance
  Lutherans help women in Bangladesh produce silk
• Camp survival
  Refugee program works on shoestring budget
• How can bishops help us?
  And what do we need from them?
• Leadership lessons
• Minn. church to ordain lesbian pastor
  'We feel it's a gospel issue'
• A resounding 'yes'
  Fund for Leaders in Mission helps seminarians reduce debt
• It happens on a dry campus too
• Beating the binge
  With no easy fixes, Lutheran colleges and campus ministries take on binge drinking
• Sisters by choice
  Milwaukee ministry helps young women make good life decisions
• Giving them credit
  Lutherans start saving clubs for women in Bangladesh
• What about same-sex unions?
  ELCA synods struggle to define what the gospel means
• Full communion partners struggle with ecumenical and sexuality issues
• Broken bodies, healing hearts
  After a bloody war, Lutherans bring hope to amputees in Sierra Leone
• No CCM 'exceptions,' say seminary faculty
• Seminary loses discrimination ruling
• Small farmers meet an agricultural giant
• Seeing our racism
  Relationships remove the lenses that blind us to white privilege
• For the sake of mission
  Lutheran and Episcopal seminarians train together in Texas

• Wisconsin synod continues to express grief
• Leadership resignations follow seminary deficit
• Portico Benefit Services approves annuity increases for 2013
• ELCA response to Sandy will continue 'until the work is done,' says ELCA Presiding Bishop
• D. Jensen Seyenkulo, churchwide staff, elected bishop, Lutheran Church in Liberia
• Illustrator Chris Raschka wins a second Caldecott Medal
• PLTS and CLU explore possible merger
• Mission support update
• Lutheran peacemaker Leymah Gbowee wins Nobel Peace Prize
• A 'debt of gratitude': Church executive Dorothy Marple dies
• Canadian Lutherans open doors to gay marriage and pastors
• Gettysburg and Luther seminaries will join forces
• First female presiding bishop for Norway's Lutherans
• ELCA: $30 million malaria campaign 'not feasible'
• Midland Lutheran College to become Midland University
• Florida Lutherans' interreligious efforts no publicity stunt
• Timeline announced for churchwide restructuring
• LCMS President-elect calls ELCA relations 'complex'
• ELCA Church Council trims churchwide budget by $4.2 million
• ELCA-affiliated Dana College shuts down
• Southeast Michigan bishop resigns
• How much of health is our guts?
• You go, girl!
• Healthy travel
• No eggs, no oil, no sugar... how could it be any good?
• How clean is our air?
• Retirees, employees sue Augsburg Fortress over pensions
• Salmon, anyone?
• Diet transplant
• Celebrating 35
• Happy spring!
• Woman killed at Calvary Lutheran, Federal Way, Wash.
• Dana College sold; will become for-profit
• Thrivent matching Haiti gifts, $1 for every $2
• Haiti: prayer with news
• In the aftershock, Haiti donations roll in
• Wartburg Seminary student's status unconfirmed after Haiti quake
• Pacifica Synod faces budget cuts
• Southeastern Synod may cut grants, staff
• A hole in the roof
• Alaska: Lutheran Social Services to help homeless people
• The Economist comments on ELCA, CORE
• Civility, for Sept. 11
• Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer: the first martyr recognized by United Methodists
• Church names: Protestants have more leeway
• Sermon-pinching
• At Croatian cafe, youth don't pay up. They "pray up."
• Some top 2007 religion stories reflect reader picks for '08
• Would you text in church?
• This week, can you live on $1 a meal?