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I am reflecting on what it is like to live in Jerusalem for forty days and forty nights, a month of Sundays, or, in my case, two months. Visit the blog, with reflections, images and slide shows: Living in Jerusalem: 40 Days and 40 Nights. There's a space on the blog to sign up for email updates.
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It is common that moments before the Pentecost Sunday service a panicked Lector rushes into the Pastor’s study and nervously asks, “How do you pronounce these words: ‘Medes. . . Elamites . . . Cappadocia . . . Phrygia . . .Pamphylia?!”
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Sunday, September 11th, 2011 will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the horrific terrorist attacks on innocents in New York City, over the skies of Pennsylvania, and within the halls of the Pentagon. On this day there will be collective prayers across the country in remembrance of the victims, those heroic first-responders who gave of their lives, and the families who have survived them all. The terrible events of that blue-skied Tuesday morning ten years ago continue to haunt us.
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On this Memorial Day Weekend I am reminded of all of the
veterans who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country, for our freedom, and
for me personally. And I honor
them. But it is not a holiday that I
find easy to deal with. It is a time
when we remember those who chose or were forced to go to war – and who lost
their lives, paid amazing sacrifices, and left loved ones behind.
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In the last week I have Skyped with family in Texas, talked on the phone with a pastor friend in North Carolina, messaged/chatted with a good friend in California, kept up with family in Tornado Alley via Facebook, uploaded student sermons to a limited access YouTube account so they could see them and share them with friends/family, received an update from a former student by email about their approval for ordination, and connecte
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The Shaffer-Ashmead Chapel of The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
Friday, May 20th 2011
Farewell and Godspeed Service
Exodus 3: 1 - 12
Acts 6: 8 - 15
A prayer of Catherine of Siena:
O God eternal,
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I just got home from
seeing a Real 3D© movie. It was a very
different experience from the early days of 3D when you wore the silly blue and
red paper glasses that dug into the top of your ears as you watched.
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Somehow I’m in Leviticus again. I didn’t do it on purpose. This time. I know I’ve drashed this parsha before, but according to my files it was in a year that B’har and B’chukotai were together and I scrolled to the B’har side of the Torah. Today we are plumb in B’chukotai which I would like to sum up as:
If...then...If you...then I will...If you don’t...then I won’t...
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I have been surrounded lately by times of uncertainty … uncertainty in a variety of forms and on a number of levels. I am keenly aware of many of my students preparing and waiting for a call to a church, members of my family anxiously yearning to learn results about health issues/tests, friends in need of a job and anticipating hearing back from applications or interviews, and so many others.
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I had my final seminary class of the semester this week and I got quite emotional. As a class we have gotten very close. We have talked about our joys and concerns, prayed together, and shared parts of our lives together over the course of the last four months.