Returning from the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly in Minneapolis last month there was very little hullabaloo around St. Luke’s. Yes, we’d heard that the assembly had voted to allow “structured flexibility” on matters related to the rostering of LGBT clergy in “publicly accountable, lifelong, monogamous, same-sex relationships” (which I’ve taken to calling “palms”), and blessing … Continue reading Message: Salty…
Sermon: Sunday, September 20, 2009: Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Texts: Jeremiah 11:18-20 • Psalm 54 • James 3:13 - 4:3, 7-8a • Mark 9:30-37 Grace and Peace to you, my sisters and brothers, in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Have you ever listened to people who volunteer on a regular basis describe their experience of being in service? It’s … Continue reading Sermon: Sunday, September 20, 2009: Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Message: The Greatest Nation on Earth…
On November 20, 1989 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), an international convention outlining in the language of human rights those basic accommodations and liberties that societies across the globe agree should be accorded to children regardless of individual difference or background. It is … Continue reading Message: The Greatest Nation on Earth…
By Proclamation 