Mental Health & Gun Violence
VirtualStudies indicate that between 3-5% of all firearm homicides are the result of mental illness. In Minnesota, 79% of gun deaths are suicide by gun. A typical mass murderer is described as isolated, lacking in social support, bears a grudge, is angry and externalizes blame. Yet the vast majority of people diagnosed with psychiatric disorders [...]
A Pilgrimage to Remember and Reflect
Why this Social Action Pilgrimage? People go on pilgrimage for many reasons. Some common ones are: to visit a sacred space; to seek healing; to give thanks; to heed an inner sense of call; to reclaim a lost or abandoned part of oneself. This pilgrimage offers the chance to connect the soul of our communities through intentional [...]
A People of Hope: Until All Are Fed
VirtualA People of Hope: Until All Are Fed An online benefit for ELCA World Hunger When: Thursday, Oct. 14, 7:30 p.m. Central time Where: Zoom webinar This online benefit for ELCA World Hunger will feature interviews hosted by Rick Steves, with people on the ground who are doing the dynamic work of fighting hunger [...]
2021 National CROP Hunger Walk
Wherever you choose!Join us for the 2021 National CROP Hunger Walk on World Food Day, October 16th and end hunger in the U.S. and around the world! Walk on your treadmill, in your neighborhood, in a park with friends – you choose the location and the experience. Walk one day - 3.7 miles (the average distance a [...]
Bold Gathering (Lutheran Men in Mission)
"You Give What None of Us Can!" Rev. Dr. Sean L. Forde will share about the give and take in servant leadership. Leaders give and serve, but they also receive great gifts from those they lead and serve. LMM's Young Men's Ministry Team was a special time with servant leaders who served and blessed the [...]
Confidence in Conflict: Navigating the Struggle
VirtualWhen you hear the word conflict, what reaction happens in your body? Is it possible to have a healthy relationship with conflict? How do you develop the capacity to enter into conflict well? These are some burning questions that we’ll explore with you in this online conflict workshop on October 21 from 1:00 to 4:00 [...]
Joint Ministerium with Saint Paul Area Synod
Incarnation Lutheran Church Shoreview 4880 Hodgson Road, Shoreview, MNNear the end of 2020, Martin Luther’s words on how to respond to a pandemic as a person of faith went viral. His Whether One May Flee From a Deadly Plague didn’t feel nearly 500 years old. Just as he spoke to his community during an outbreak of the bubonic plague in Wittenburg in 1527, his [...]
Ballots Beyond Bars: Remember, Restore, Reconnect
Advent Lutheran Church 9475 Jefferson Hwy, Maple Grove, MN, United StatesBallots Beyond Bars: Remember, Restore, Reconnect Twenty-one states restore full voting rights once a felon completes a prison term, but not Minnesota. People who have left prison but are still on parole or probation do not regain the franchise until they are "off paper." Some Lutherans, based on ELCA social teaching, don't think this is [...]
Come Together for Racial Justice
onlineHow do we build true relationships across differences? That is a common question these days. Increasingly, people know that trust must be established. But, how is that done? How is it maintained? What moves BIPOC folks to risk potential harm for the sake of community? How do white folks acknowledge the systems that don't merit [...]
Formula Missae of 1523
St. Paul - Reformation Lutheran 100 Oxford St N, St. Paul, MN, United StatesSt. Paul-Reformation (100 Oxford Street North, Saint Paul) will commemorate Reformation Sunday with Luther’s first revision of the medieval mass, his Formula Missae of 1523, on Sunday October 31 at 5:00 p.m. Period music will be included in this setting of the mass as it would have been celebrated at St. Mary’s Church (the City [...]