The Liturgical Assembly as the Embodied Presence of Christ in the World
Today’s post is by Shane R. Brinegar, a PhD candidate at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. The church is not a building or a complicated bureaucratic structure, but an embodied community gathered around bread, water, wine and word—signs...
Ash Wednesday on Valentine’s Day
Today’s post is by Tim Knauff, Jr., Senior Pastor of Christ Lutheran Church, Valparaiso, Indiana. By now you’ve probably been asked, half-jokingly, if you will be celebrating Ash Wednesday or Valentine’s Day on the 14th. For me it was...
Merry Christmas from the ELCA Worship Staff
We are called to ponder mystery and await the coming Christ, to embody God’s compassion for each fragile human life. God is with us in our longing to bring healing to the earth, while we watch with joy and...
Advent Listening and Waiting in Full Color
Today’s post is from the artist Robyn Sand Anderson. In 2015, I created a series of paintings interpreting Arvo Pårt’s “Magnificat & Sieben Antiphonen”. I had interpreted music with paint a few years prior and found it to be...
La Posada, Searching for Shelter
Today’s post is from Patrick Cabello Hansel, co-pastor at St. Paul’s Lutheran in Minneapolis, MN. The first Baby Jesus at our church is now 11 years old. He’s the goalie on our soccer team, which finished runner-up this year. The...
Advent 4 with Hymns from Around the World
Today’s post is from Lydia Posselt, Pastor at Family of God in in Buckingham, PA. This is the second of two posts about how congregations will be worshipping this year when the fourth Sunday of Advent falls on Christmas Eve. ...