Archive for May 8, 2010
A New Generation of Worship for a New Generation of Americans
It was an information-packed morning in the assembly hall. The Rev. Karen Ward, Vicar and Abbess of Church of the Apostles, a young, emerging, Episcopal and Lutheran mission congregation located…
Read MoreThe big issues in our faces and the unknown under our noses
Bishop Richard Graham gave a verbal report to the assembly on Friday afternoon to support his written report, which had been distributed earlier. Bishop Graham made several key points to…
Read MoreThe Perspective from Two First-time Voting Members
Peggy and Barrett Everhard, members of Holy Trinity, Leesburg, Va., are attending their first synod assembly as voting members. After attending the first day of the assembly, the parts that…
Read MoreThrough the Looking-‘Glass’ – ELCA Representative Brings an Outside Perspective
Kristin Glass is the ELCA representative to the synod assembly, and as such, she is the “ambassador” from the Churchwide expression of the ELCA and from the ELCA’s Presiding Bishop,…
Read MoreThe ’emerging church’: Something old, something new
Friday night’s Festive Eucharist, the main worship service of the assembly, was a mixture of traditional and post-modern. Some familiar words dressed in new clothes, some old stuff with a…
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