Posts tagged with ‘Elizabeth Eaton’

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A Message from Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton “I Wonder”

by Melissa VanTassell

    “I Wonder” Recently, I heard the Bach cantata O heilges Geist und Wasserbad. The cantata’s text is based on John 3:1-15, which was the Gospel lesson at the service where the cantata was first performed. The image that stuck with me and about which I have been doing a lot of thinking was the story […]

    A Message from Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton

    by Melissa VanTassell

      “It’s Not What We Do” At the end of the sixth chapter of the Gospel according to John, many disciples who had been following Jesus left him. Looking at the 12, Jesus asked, “Will you also go away?” Simon Peter answered, “Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life” (John […]

      A Message from Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton

      by Melissa VanTassell

        A Proclivity for Paradox A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all (Martin Luther in Freedom of a Christian). Wow, Lutherans love paradox! Law and gospel. Saint and sinner. Free and bound. David Swartling, former ELCA […]