Blog - Holy Communion/Eucharist

“As I listened to their emotional testimonies, I reflected on the human superpower that is empathy, the superpower that racism tries to choke off. Empathy led these innocent bystanders to wrack themselves with guilt following Floyd’s killing.“ Heather McGhee
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.” Matthew 13:34
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In the last couple of weeks, my daughter Else discovered an etymology that somehow, I’d never thought to think about.

Eucharisteó

Dear OMG blog readers,

Today, Good Friday, I have Peter on my mind.

Dear OMG blog readers,

Christians are suffering a crisis of the First Commandment: that’s the one that goes, “You shall have no other gods but me.”

Most recently, it was White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer who claimed that Hitler “didn’t even use chemical weapons…on his own people.”

If you have never read Wendell Berry, or worse, never heard of him, stop reading this blog this very moment and go to your nearest local bookstore to buy his stuff up before your neighbor snags all the goods first.

Appropriately, I think, I tend to keep personal updates off of my OMG Facebook page.

Many years ago, my Grandma Madsen got fired from the Brookings South Dakota jail.

This week is a personal doozy.

For people who think on such things, May 13th marks the day of medieval mystic Julian of Norwich.

In light of Anne Rice’s recent announcement that she is leaving Christianity but holding onto Christ I am pondering the following:
What does it mean to react to vs respond to the Gospel, to God, to Christ, to Christianity?
What are the parallels, if any, between Anne Rice and the stance taken by Martin Luther centuries ago?
What does it mean to ‘leave’ a doctrine?

Like ink made visible in the moonlight.

I apologize for the delay in writing my latest blog!

Question:  My sister-in-law grew up Bapist (she’s from GA). She didn’t receive communion with us during a visit to MN-she explained due to her thoughts, words, deeds.  I told her that’s the best time to go and mentioned Eph 2:8-10. She came back to me with James 2:14-19.  So what do I say to a Baptist PK that responds as such with my Lutheran background?