The South Dakota Capital Journal reports on a monthly hymn sing that helps keep Dakota language alive: …recently, for Native Americans who grew up speaking and
These words and images are gathered with respect, playfulness, and reverence for life. Our hope is to open conversations among people of many persuasions who have more in common than we often realize.
In 2014, Earth Hour broke all records of mass participation by mobilising hundreds of millions of people to become everyday super heroes for the planet and was celebrated in 162 countries and territories and over 7000 cities and towns.
Lent and Holy Week are about Jesus but it is also about us. It’s about our mortality and the promise of rest and resurrection. Perhaps the sound of the requiem is to be a comfort to us. The march to the cross leads not to a requiem but rather a celebration of life.
But the Master’s voice is not speaking here. I know because I suddenly hear it, very faint, very far away. I have to stop all talking, all moving, even all thinking, and turn around. It’s coming from somewhere out there, out beyond the Jordan, in the uncivilized, unnamed places.
For forty days we have walked the way of repentance. We have been taught the lesson of forgiveness. Now, from the cross, Jesus tells us: It is finished. We are saved. We are forgiven.
Bonhoeffer imagines the church “under the cross.” So too our gospel reading for today turns our faces toward the cross and dares to reimagine what it means, just as we are being called to reimagine the Church and what it means in this time and place.
The Joint Standing Committee on Nominations report contains comments by the committee on the nomination and election process and nominees for Executive Council, officers and Boards.
Libby Lane explains how she will change the church from within – and why she can’t endorse marriage equality.
From our ongoing series leading up to General Convention 2015: The Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music has issued its report for General Convention. Some