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.

• Why not child sponsorship?
  A Q&A with ELCA World Hunger Appeal director Kathryn Sime
• Where Lutheran heritage comes alive
  For youth, Lutheran Summer Music builds musical excellence, camaraderie
• Augsburg students 'step up'
  College housing and counseling support students in recovery
• A surprising new role
  David Swartling prepares for his work as ELCA secretary
• Churchwide Assembly to elect officers
  Range of concerns to come before voting members
• Taking the weekend 'off'
  Camp Onomia offers military families a free July 4th break
• Campus ministry supported her after Virginia Tech shootings
• 'We're your daughters'
  Winnipeg consultation educates Lutherans about commercial sexual exploitation
• ELCA college forms Luther House of Study
• Tips for praying with young children
• ELCA sees rise in number of ministry candidates
• A Q&A with the LWF's Sheila Shyamprasad
• Pentecost calling
  Nebraska congregation has an odd beginning, but is off to a good start
• It's about Scripture
  Reform-minded groups argue authority
• LWF membership rose to 66.2 million in 2005
• What's in a name?
  Branding leaves its mark on ELCA social service providers
• LIRS and ELCA bishops protest House immigration bill
• Council: Synod resolution conflicts with policy
• Laureate: All of us can do something
  Nobel Peace Prize Forum connects environment with peace
• 'We let them know they have power'
  Lutheran-supported ministry boosts health of women in Chile
• Grand Canyon bishop resigns over sexual misconduct
• To prevent famine, Kenyan Lutherans seek help
• One year after the tsunami
  ELCA partners see results and much work ahead
• Future leaders: Kimberly Vaughn, 37
• Church Council discusses maintaining trust
  Topics range from worship to funding, governance and discipline
• Future leaders: Giovanny Sanchez, 36
• New editor elected for The Lutheran
• Air Force releases interim religion guidelines
• An overabundance of care
  Lutheran Disaster Response begins long, hard work
• Hurricane Katrina: Once lost, now found
  Lutheran social services staff find missing seniors, families
• Ephoruses: You can tell them by their humor and care
• Assembly debates, adopts rules
• Facing critical issues
  Voting members to address sexuality, restructuring,worship andethnic ministry
• ELCA chaplain resigns from Air Force
  Task force releases report on religious intolerance at the academy
• Orlando assembly faces critical issues: sexuality & restructuring
  Voting members also address worship and ethnic ministry
• Chaplain is dismissed from U.S. Air Force Academy
• Keeping our mission mindset
• Council proposes exceptions for gay and lesbian ministers
• Creative outreach: On the radio, 'grace matters'
  An ELCA ministry reaches ordinary people with God's extraordinary love
• ELCA Sexuality Studies: Task force asks to delay social statement
• Creative outreach: Peter Marty
• Songs can be frontlines too
• The ELCA offers a picture of hope
• Equal partners
  Becoming a multicultural church strengthens Christian community
• Namibia: Life is much, much more
• Prescription for the spirit
• Evan: Rock star, child of God!
• Rediscovering themselves
  With Lutheran help, ex-fighters leave violence behind
• What's up with ELCA campus ministry?
• Governance 'has to change'
  Church Council discusses decision-making, budget shortfalls

• 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?