Offering Painting
A few posts back I wrote about the amazing painting that was created during the offering at the NC Synod assembly. This is a video of the creation of that painting.
The Untame Holy Spirit
I came upon this post quite by accident this morning while looking for something else entirely and I found something about it to be quite profound. This line in particular “And perhaps mercy and creation aren’t really that different.” There’s some really good stuff there about mercy and what we Lutherans might call grace. It is well…
Ascension
Sermon for Ascension Sunday, Year A. Act 1:1-11 This past week I attended the NC synod assembly in Hickory, NC and it began, as it always does, with worship. During the time when the offering was taken up, a woman came on stage and began to paint on a huge black canvas. As the offertory…
Even So
At several points during the synod assembly each year, we have what are called ‘Dwelling In The Word Moments’. They are brief stories shared by different people about how scripture has touched their lives in some way or another. The purpose is to encourage one another to see the value of scripture and its priceless…
Synod Assembly
So, I’m in Hickory, NC at the NC Synod Assembly of the ELCA. It is so terribly hot here! The sun beats down, I sweat, drag around bags and folders and bottles of water without which I could not survive. My summer intern is with me, too, and trying desperately to keep me together! It…
Shepherdess Writes 