Pete Ellertsen church year, Dominicans, Episcopalians, hymnody, Ireland, Lutherans, Peace Lutheran, spirituality, Trinity

It’s not all about green beer: How an Anglican hymn attibuted to St. Patrick got me through a midlife career change and a 12-step recovery program

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fqzWs6KPoE St. Patrick's Breastplate, arr. Ron Lewis, Church of the Apostles, Columbia, SC, 2022 It's not all about St. Paddy's Day parades, no matter how much fun it is to march behind your local candidate for city, county or state office. Nor is it always and only about pub-crawling and dyeing the Chicago River green. … Continue reading It’s not all about green beer: How an Anglican hymn attibuted to St. Patrick got me through a midlife career change and a 12-step recovery program

Pete Ellertsen Christology, church history, church&state, Roger Williams, Trinity

What do Constantine and the 4th-century Byzantine church councils tell us about the separation of church and state today?

Constantine Enters Rome, Peter Paul Reubens, 1621 (Wikimedia Commons). Beginning Saturday, I'll be auditing an online Church History Survey course offered by the Central/Southern Illinois Synod, ELCA. In addition to our assigned readings by Justo L. González listed below, we're assigned to write a one-page reflection paper on what we read. The prompt says: "While … Continue reading What do Constantine and the 4th-century Byzantine church councils tell us about the separation of church and state today?

Pete Ellertsen Christology, salvation, Sundays@6, Trinity

ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton: If there is a hell, ‘I think it’s empty’

Feb. 18, 2024. This post was written a year ago, and for some reason I never got around to uplinking it until today, when I came across it while researching another post on the general subject of hell. Since that time, the link to the summary quoted below of the original podcast on the Sun-Times … Continue reading ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton: If there is a hell, ‘I think it’s empty’