November 23, 2008 at 8:06 pm (Christians)
Tags: Eucharist, sermon, Thanksgiving
The Beatitudes Society has posted the text of a pretty great Thanksgiving Sunday sermon (if I do say so myself!). It connects the Christian practices of Eucharist/communion and the secular American practices of the Thanksgiving holiday. Let me know what you think!
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November 10, 2008 at 9:54 pm (Christians, Church of the Brethren, Feminisms, ecology, peace, religion)
Tags: burial, Christianity, Church of the Brethren, ecology, peace memorial garden, socialism
I sure am proud to be Brethren!
Click here to check out what our church is doing: revolutionizing burial practices. Interment of ashes in a communal garden at the church. Yes, it’s just for one relatively small community. But it has deep implications.
What can I say but WOW? This is truly living out that tagline we’re so familiar with as Church of the Brethren: we’re doing burial in a way that emphasizes community (together in spirit in death as in life), a way that’s simpler than the ecologically-taxing standard burial practices, a way that memorializes peace for the world as well as for each soul tied to that place. I think this is the work of ritual done justly that Jesus would have smiled to see.
This is environmental burial that truly considers our impact on the Earth/earth, even and especially in the midst of one of the biggest life transitions we go through. This is communitarian burial that takes relationships seriously in how we identify ourselves and how we remember ourselves. This is radical stuff! And we’re not just talking about it – we’re just doing it.
Amen!
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