I’m a 5-12 #BandDirector in Eastern #Iowa. Follow lots of #Mac/#Apple news, blogs, and podcasts. Interested in digital #productivity, #automation, and the like (think #OmniFocus). Also a devout (if very flawed) #lcms #lutheran. #Tuba is my primary

#MusicEd #MusicEducation #MusicTech #Baseball #Hawkeyes #cfb #sfgiants

Last #Trump Co-Defendant Booked While Rocking #Clerical Collar
https://www.mediaite.com/crime/last-trump-co-defendant-booked-while-rocking-clerical-collar/
#maga #lutheran #christian #cult #indictment

"Lee wasn't just a pastor who happened to have a political affinity for Trump. He actively misused his authority as a minister to try to gain access to [Ruby] Freeman against her will -- and to dissuade police from intervening."

Lee drove to Georgia from Chicago and targeted election worker Ruby Lee, attempting to intimidate her, and is now facing charges for that reason.

#StephenLee #Lutheran #MissouriSynod #insurrection #Georgia #indictment
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Faithful America has a petition online calling on the president of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, LCMS President, Rev. Matthew C. Harrison, to expel Rev. Stephen Lee from ordained ministry after the role Lee played in Trump's attempt to subvert the 2020 election, for which Lee has been indicted.

An email Faithful America sent out re: this petition states the following:

#StephenLee #Lutheran #MissouriSynod #insurrection #Georgia #indictment
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https://act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/indictment-lee-lcms/

We went to a Lutheran church in the next town over yesterday. There was only one reading and it was from the apocrypha. The sermon was a good take, but lacked any Good News. They did at least have communion (with Christ's blood in little tiny shot glasses). No choir and music only 2 Sundays a month. I think if we go Lutheran (swim the Danube?) we'd be just fine going to the local church.

#ChurchShopping #Lutheran

Csömör, 1948. Many of the photos from Fortepan are of pretty average quality. That is part of the strength of the site: it is very much an unfiltered look at Hungarian society throughout the 20th century. Like this photo, taken at a Lutheran church in the village of Csömör on the outskirts of Budapest. Even though it is out of focus, it nevertheless creates a powerful image of women at worship.

Source: Fortepan [187495] / Fortepan/Album08

#fortepan #Hungary #Csömör #church #worship #Lutheran

#Estonia's Evangelical #Lutheran #Church will temporarily suspend marriage registrations as of 2024. Archbishop Urmas Viilma noted that members of the clergy may experience conflicts with their faith when officiating #gender-neutral weddings.

https://viabaltica.fi/estonia-lutheran-church-to-suspend-marriage-registrations-temporarily/

I have been meaning to pen this for awhile, and finally got around to doing so: My most recent blogpost is about one of my favorite summertime films, The Lutefisk Wars, which is set in North Dakota, USA, and hosts a heavy dose of traditional Scandinavian Christmas foods and characters caught up in the kind of mayhem only conscientious #Lutheran church potluck attendees and card-carrying Sons of Norway members could be. https://www.sadareed.com/single-post/the-lutefisk-wars-2011
#lutefisk #lefse #Norway #NorwegianAmerican

AI #Religion? Hundreds attend #church service at a convention of #Protestants generated by #ChatGPT.

The artificial intelligence #chatbot asked believers in a fully packed #Lutheran church to rise from the pews and praise the Lord then commenced to preach.

The avatar, personified as a bearded Black man on a huge screen above the altar, had an expressionless face and monotonous voice. Its use of platitudes in deadpan voice that drew some laughter as it preached.

https://apnews.com/article/germany-church-protestants-chatgpt-ai-sermon-651f21c24cfb47e3122e987a7263d348

Can a #chatbot preach a good #sermon? Hundreds attend experimental #Lutheran church service to find out

https://ground.news/article/can-a-chatbot-preach-a-good-sermon-hundreds-attend-experimental-lutheran-church-service-to-find-out_8f2dc7

Tech (Global News): Can chatbots be ministers? Hundreds attend ChatGPT-led church service https://globalnews.ca/news/9760086/chatgpt-leads-church-service-germany/ #globalnews #TechNews #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #ChurchService #Lutheran #chatbot #chatgpt #Germany #Church #World #Tech #AI

'Time for arms' at German Protestant Church Assembly

https://www.dw.com/en/time-for-arms-at-german-protestant-church-assembly/a-65872426?maca=en-dipa_news_mstdn-34613-xml-mrss

#ProtestantChurch #Lutheran #pacifism #disarmament #UkraineWar #VladimirPutin #Frank-WalterSteinmeier

Faith #Lutheran Church in Cambridge destroyed in an Easter fire https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/10/metro/steeple-faith-lutheran-church-cambridge-slated-be-taken-down-after-six-alarm-fire/ I went there once or twice for a cross-congregation game night, and Rev. Lutjohann was a Harvard Divinity School student and in the young adult and grad student group with me at UniLu when I was a member. Very sad.

In the #Lutheran #liturgy (at least how it is written in #Alsace), we do not sing the Alleluia and the Gloria during #Lent.

And it makes absolutely no sense to me.

#Lutheranism #Protestantism

In the #Lutheran liturgy (at least how it is written in #Alsace), we do not sing the Alleluia and the Gloria during #Lent.

And it makes absolutely no sense to me.

"Why I wrote EcoActivist Testament," a >2 minute video. In this video you will see this octogenarian (me) worshiping with nature at our old farmhouse in the western mountains of Maine.

If you are a faith-driven #ecoactivist, I wrote this for you. If you are sometimes on the verge of despair, wondering "why bother!?" I wrote this for you.

https://youtu.be/VSeK0XqdtGc

#ecoactivism #ecojustice #spirituality #rest #theology #LutheransRestoringCreation #lutheran #elca #PaulSantmire #HPaulSantmire

Originally I wrote this as a Lenten reflection, and then I found myself sick with COVID before I could post it. I am well recovered and have posted on my Walking Thoughts blog about my experience with the Trinity Prayer: https://hpaulsantmire.net/praying-all-the-time/
#prayer #Trinity #TrinityPrayer #Lutheran #ELCA #LutheransRestoringCreation #JesusPrayer

50 years of the #LeuenbergAgreement, which brought the historic #Lutheran and #Reformed churches of #Europe into a shared #church #fellowship, leaving behind #theology differences between the descendants of #Luther and #Calvin dating back to the #Reformation era. The biggest #churches include almost every national #Protestant church in #Europe (including the #ChurchOfScotland), but not the #ChurchOfEngland- because #England always liked a European opt out?!
#ecumenism
https://www.oikoumene.org/news/wcc-praises-50-years-of-agreement-between-lutheran-reformed-and-united-churches-in-europe

50 years of the #LeuenbergAgreement, which brought the historic #Lutheran and #Reformed churches of #Europe into a shared #church #fellowship, leaving behind #theology differences between the descendant of #Luther and #Calvin dating back to the #Reformation era. The biggest #churches include almost every national #Protestant church in #Europe (including the #ChurchOfScotland), but not the #ChurchOfEngland- because #England always liked a European opt out?!
#ecumenism
https://www.oikoumene.org/news/wcc-praises-50-years-of-agreement-between-lutheran-reformed-and-united-churches-in-europe

Into your mercy we commend ourselves, and for peace at the last we pray, that all your creation may give you praise and worship, through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Lord have mercy.

Our great God has formed the dust of our being in the midst of the waters of creation. Let us adore the Righteous One, saying: O God, feed us with mercy: Lord, hear our prayer.

For the Tree of Golgotha, our true tree of life, by whose just fruit we live, the church worships you, O God. May your people ever praise and serve you and all the world’s people. O God, feed us with mercy:

O God of the seas and rains, we praise you for watering and sustaining all things living. We bless you for the waters flowing from Jesus’ pierced side. Give to all candidates of baptism, and to all the baptized, the sure hope of your grace. O God, feed us with mercy:

Send us to the nations where there is a famine of the word; show us those who await the bread of life; and confront us with those who suffer in hunger. May our abundance supply their need. O God, feed us with mercy:

Lord and judge of all ,confirm what is good and just in the hearts of those who rule the nations. Make all in authority to govern in justice the peoples whom you have made. O God, feed us with mercy:

For all who desire wisdom, for all who need hands to bear them up, for the naked and the outcast, for the sick and the dying [[[especially N.]]], for all in need of your gift of abundant health, we pray for your mercy:

[[[Here other intercessions may be offered.]]]

For all the holy people before us who served you as their only wisdom amid life’s temptations [[[especially N.]]], we give you thanks, O God. Give your holy angels charge over us, and bring us who live in the wilderness of time from the waters of baptism into the garden of your great love, where we will be no longer in hunger, but filled with your life forever, through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

#Christianity #LentenPrayer #Lent #SeasonOfLent #Catholic #Lutheran #Prayer #ChristianPrayer