What makes a saint – is it nice thoughts, acts of social justice, successful church plants, miracles wrought after death?
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Author: Lizette Larson
Doing Liturgical Formation
The children burn palms to make ashes, have instruction and conversation on the meaning of ashes, of Lent, and of preparing (exercising their spiritual muscles) to get ready for Easter.
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Ecumenism in Person
There is always an ecumenical energy that alternatingly baffles, engages, entertains, or inspires…
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Let’s Try Forty Days of Christmas!
A new sadness has crept in – Christmas music in Advent, and no music in Christmas season.
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Paradoxes of our ecclesiae: altars, women, and ad orientem
The practice of ad orientem presiding may look similar (and is similar) in different ecclesial communities, but the impetus and advocacy shape the conversation for and against in very different ways.
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The Theme of Today’s Liturgy is…squash?
The dreaded opening sentence: “The theme of today’s liturgy is…”
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The Challenges of Chaplaincy: Standing in Faith
May we find in all our ministries ways of comprehension for the sake of truth, rather than compromise for the sake of peace!
Read moreOrdinations, Culture, and Following Christ
The ideal image of clergy as those who draw others in and then get out of the way, pointing to the living God, not themselves… Our North American culture is so pathologically about a reality that is only ‘me’, particularly the ‘me’ who consumes, controls, and manages, that I experienced a moment of hopelessness that any of this made sense in 2017.
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