By Pastor Rob Rose, Assistant to the Bishop, Florida-Bahamas Synod Republished from the Florida-Bahamas Synod E-Spirit Weekly Newsletter The past week took me on a journey across our synod, from the west coast to the east, meeting with congregations that had been battered by both Hurricane Helene and
This is a re-post of an article by Rev. Taryn Montgomery, originally published in the Northeast Minnesota Synod Enews, covering the October 12th “Walking Together” celebration of ELCA World Hunger’s 50th anniversary. Note: this article was written on October 29th, before the November 5th election, which Rev. Montgomery references in
Over the course of a few years, and under the inspiration of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, our Prayer and Breakfast group found ourselves living together in what the Catholic Worker calls a hospitality house for the poor. The setup included about five of us grad student or seminarian types,
The concept of “co-responsibility,” introduced by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009[1] and elaborated in 2012,[2] recently took a step onto center stage with the synthesis document from the first session of the Synod on Synodality. Notably, no established theology of co-responsibility yet exists. It is simultaneously an ecclesiological concept and
Today’s Reading: Read 2 Samuel 5:1-10; I Chronicles 11:3; I Chronicles 12:38-40; Psalm 133 It was finally time! ALL of Israel decided it was time to anoint David as King. David became the King of Israel. The Israelites said, “The Lord also said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people,
Doing More Together The way churches are affiliated has changed over the past 20 years. We used to identify churches according to their denominational affiliation; now we are more likely to find a church that affiliates with a network in the place of or in addition to a denomination. To
Gregory Wolfe: Rowan Williams grew up in South Wales and studied theology at Christ College Cambridge. A strong interest in Russian Christianity led to research at Oxford in the religious thinkers of the Russian emigration and later to a book on Dostoevsky. Ordained in 1977, he worked in a pastoral