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Night of Silence / Silent Night - Virtual Choir 2021
Our celebration of God’s presence amongst us is often sacrificed to the spirit doing more, making more, buying more – and a great and sad irony is born as the season of joy and gratitude becomes, for many, the most stressful time of the year.
“Each of us as individual members of this one body are re-membered into one body with the great cloud of witnesses who join us today in the breaking of bread and flickering of candlelight. So friends, let us pause. Linger. Notice this morning. This is sacred space and sacred work that we are sharing together here at this table of remembrance.”
“If Jesus taught that we are to pray boldly yet humbly, to give with boldness and humility, then so too must we balance boldness and humility as we study, learn and grow.”
![To be totally clear, I’m not a trans woman, like Nicole [from the book, Becoming Nicole]. I’m something else. Gender fluid is the term that seems to be most authentic to me today.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55eddb87e4b0bf7021290846/1566317644875-VPUCR6PK7IYMLCQDL46Y/Colin+in+red+350.jpg)
To be totally clear, I’m not a trans woman, like Nicole [from the book, Becoming Nicole]. I’m something else. Gender fluid is the term that seems to be most authentic to me today.
"The scripture read this morning from the book of Acts paints a similar vision of a community without barriers. It’s a vision of an ideal, but it’s a fleeting vision, even in Scripture. You shared how essential and valuable it was to build a zero-barrier community. You’ve also shared that this was a temporary project. Is there a way to make a community without barriers last? What’s holding us back?”
At a time when it’s one terrible story after another. One reminder of America’s fall from grace, after another. Remind yourselves of our common dream. Remind yourselves of the country worth standing up for…that’s what I was reminded of, when I read, Of Thee I Sing.
Susan Banyas’ The Hillsboro Story:
“If you were Charlotte,” I ask Doris, “what word would you choose to weave into the web—to save the world?”
“Friendship,” Doris says, “for everybody just to try friendship. That’s hard to do.”
Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility: Why it’s Hard for White People to Talk About Racism:
"Interrupting the forces of racism is ongoing lifelong work because the forces conditioning us into racist frameworks are always at play; our learning will never be finished. Yet our simplistic definition of racism - as intentional acts of racial discrimination committed by immoral individuals - engenders a confidence that we are not part of the problem and that our earning is thus complete.”
St. Luke is a progressive Christian church in Minnetonka, Minnesota.
Rev. Dr. Kristin Riegel is the unanimous and enthusiastic recommendation of the Pastor Nominating Committee (PNC) to the congregation as pastor/head of staff.
How do we respond?
How can St. Luke respond to the threats posed against the oppressed, the marginalized, and democracy?
A proud More Light Congregation since 1988
As one of the first More Light congregation of the Presbyterian Church (USA), we support and welcome LGBTQ+ people into the full life and leadership of our church.
St. Luke is now one of 35 congregations and spiritual communities across Minnesota who are leading the way to change the climate crisis from a story of fear to one of hope.
