Love your neighbor “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor […]
Join Bishop Mary and the Synod’s fist “Steeple to Steeple Ride” for ELCA World Hunger SYNOD EVENT! Saturday, June 11, 2016 Join folks in the synod for this bike ride event to raise money for ELCA World Hunger. Not a biker? You can also Ride in Spirit by sponsoring a rider! Just go to the […]
Can we answer the question ‘why’? Once for continuing education I signed up for an introduction to philosophy course at the community college. I was a music education major in college and never had any philosophy courses. Since philosophy and theology are so closely related, I thought it was about time that I became better […]
Time to get to know each other And get ready to consider priorities, future direction of ELCA Sometimes I just don’t get us. We are the least likely of all people to speak enthusiastically about our church. I don’t know if it is some cross-cultural Lutheran modesty that compels us to hide our light under […]
Putting the pieces together 2016 dedicated to setting directions, priorities across all the church It has been just more than two years since I began this call. I’m often asked what has been the greatest surprise. Certainly the amount of travel has been a surprise, but the greatest has been the complexity and scope of the […]
Coming to Grips with Happiness It’s a cultural thing, not at all the joy to be found in crucified Christ In her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World, Barbara Ehrenreich wrote about the relentless pressure she faced to be upbeat while undergoing treatment for cancer. Any lapse in […]
A Message from Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton If God Is Enough We can be free from our attachments, to our plans, self will, success From time to time I am invited to celebrate congregational anniversaries. It’s wonderful to see the church in action and to meet members from all across the country. It […]