Through sermons, Bible studies, programs, meditations, clippings from the popular press and other features – including humor – the website promotes stewardship as a faithful response of gratitude to God’s abundant generosity.

“Stewardship is like a magnet passing over the jumbled pins and needles of our life, organizing them into a meaningful pattern,” the Rev. H. George Anderson writes in a study, Stewardship as a Lifestyle, posted on the website. “It is the attitude we bear toward all our responsibilities and possessions,” says Anderson in the paper that predates his term as Presiding Bishop of the ELCA (1995-2001).

The website offers new content every Monday, including a number of regular features – a weekly reflection, weekly gleanings from the popular press on issues related to stewardship and a joke of the week. A column, “ask the steward,” is planned.

The site, designed for clergy and lay church members, offers resources to help with some of the practical aspects of congregational stewardship, but focuses on the spiritual-development and discipleship dimensions of stewardship. The website welcomes contributions of sermons, prayers, meditations, reflections and other materials.

Founded in 1994, the Stewardship of Life Institute is headquartered at Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg.