April 2012

What flavor are you?

April 13, 2012

Children sometimes ask us “Aren’t Lutheran people Christian?” In The Little Lutheran Barbara Jurgensen answers: Do you have a favorite flavor of ice cream? My favorites are butter pecan and pralines and cream. There are lots of other great flavors: chocolate, almond crunch, vanilla, peach, strawberry, cherry nut, chocolate chunk, raspberry — to name just [...]

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Celebrate Easter with us!

April 4, 2012

Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection are held together in one liturgy lasting three days (triduum). The liturgy of the Three Days begins on Maundy Thursday with an act of confession and absolution. This year, we revive the practice of  footwashing, reiterating Jesus’ sign of communal love. “Mandatum,” the “command” to love, is the source of the [...]

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