Language around Disability: An Invitation to Conversation
Today’s post is written by Anita Smallin, Youth Family Ministry Director at Trinity Lutheran Church, North Bethesda, Maryland and Rev. Lisa Heffernan, Pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church, Chamberlain, South Dakota. When we come before God in worship, we bring our...
How Silently the Wondrous Gift Is Given
Today’s post is written by Chad Fothergill. Chad serves as cantor to the Lutheran Summer Music community, is editor of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians journal CrossAccent, and is author of Sing with All the People of God: A Handbook for...
All Creation Sings: Singing Lament
Scripture invites us, creatures of God, to join the whole creation in singing. Psalm 96 calls us to “Sing a new song… all the earth.” Our songs join the trees of the wood, the thundering seas, and the joyful...
All Creation Sings: Scriptural Images for God
Storm and Stillness, Breath and Dove, Thunder, Tempest, Whirlwind, Fire, Comfort, Couns’lor, Presence, Love, Energies that never tire: May the church at prayer recall that no single holy name but the truth behind them all is the God whom...
All Creation Sings: A Song for Sending
When we gather for worship, we gather to be sent. Our baptism into Christ sends us into the world. During the pandemic this sending has taken on a different character. In a time when we are advised to stay home...
All Creation Sings: Prayers, Thanksgivings, and Laments
A voice says, “Cry out!” And I said, “What shall I cry?” (Isaiah 40:6) There are times when words fail us, when we search for what to say but crying out or sighing must suffice. Yet there are also times...