Welcome

Today’s blog is from Margo Jensen, chair of our Reconciling in Christ team at Holy Cross Lutheran Church. Enjoy.

“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of
others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope,
and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and
daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest
walls of oppression and resistance.”
― Robert F. Kennedy
“Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very
diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Continue reading “Welcome”

Where do we begin?

‘For we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses’. We stand on the shoulders of men and women responsible for 2000 years of Christian history; Christian learning; Christian service and Christian grief.  Every year as All Saints Day comes around, I spend time remembering those who have died in these last 12 months. I think about famous people, important people like John McCain, and I think about those I have buried from the church I am blessed to serve, and I think about family. My father died 6 months ago, and we will read his name aloud during the service of remembrance this coming Sunday, along with many others.  Continue reading “Where do we begin?”