About two billion of the world’s Christians, including Lutherans, follow the cycle of the church year.  Our seasons, our colors, our lessons, our themes, the sweep of the Christian story of salvation, all of that and forms the rhythmical roll through our spiritual lives.  Across the divides of doctrinal disputes large and small, Lutherans and Roman Catholics and the Orthodox traditions and the Anglicans along with some other Protestants value this rhythm with what to the rest of the world appears to be some kind of unity, even though we often tend to emphasize internally what keeps us apart rather than what binds us together.

What if those themes were  Continue Reading "Arise, Shine"