Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. View the slideshow here.
This week’s photo selection includes preparations for Hindu pilgrimages, Belgian flood recovery and more.
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Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. View the slideshow here.
Featured in this week’s photo is an archival photo of the 10th Anniversary Conference of Ordained Lutheran Women, April 13-16, 1980, in Rochester, Minnesota.
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The Office of the Bishop team read this post from Otto Scharmer, which offers ten big picture ways to see the extraordinary changes we are living through.
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Feeling green? Read or listen to this story from NPR’s Life Kit. If you'd like to do something to slow down climate change, even if it's just a small thing, you can get started in your own apartment or house.
Homes and commercial buildings account for about a third of the country's greenhouse gas emissions, because it takes energy to heat and cool them and to power all the gadgets we've got plugged in.
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Narrated by David Attenborough, never-before-seen footage shows how our living in lockdown opened the door for nature to bounce back and thrive. Across the seas, skies, and lands, Earth found its rhythm when we came to a stop. More info on The Year Earth Changed here.
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A year ago, their rehearsal was one fo the first documented superspreader events. But tragedy and isolation couldn’t keep their voices apart. Read or listen to the article and hear their music.
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“The risen but scarred body of Christ is the ultimate signifier of divine empathy,” writes Peter Wehner in this opinion letter.
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Listen to devotional music available through Augsburg Fortress: “Let Us Talents and Tongues Employ;” “The Everlasting Light;” “Song of Thanksgiving.”
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Listen to devotional music available through Augsburg Fortress: “My Soul Proclaims Your Greatness;” “Borning Cry;” “Spirit of the Lord.”
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Listen to devotional music available through Augsburg Fortress: “On Hills of Bethlehem;” “This Little Light of Mine;” “O Laughing Light.”
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Listen to devotional music available through Augsburg Fortress: “A Babe Is Born;” “O God of Light;” “Now the Heavens Start to Whisper.”
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Bishop Eaton shares a Christmas message with children as she reads the book The Little Shepherd. In the book, the birth of Jesus is told from the perspective of a shepherd boy. Each of us, no matter how small, can tell the story of Jesus’ birth and how God loves us. Merry Christmas!
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Listen to devotional music available through Augsburg Fortress: “O Laughing Light;” “Nunc Dimittis;” “All Praise to Thee.”
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Listen to devotional music available through Augsburg Fortress: “The King Shall Come;” “Let Us Talents and Tongues Employ;” “Steal Away.”
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The values that shaped them include leadership, optimism and charting your own course.
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Public health officials urge families to keep celebrations small, avoid mixing households and open the windows.
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What has the pandemic meant for the Begay family of Kayenta, Ariz.? Job loss, curfews, a break-in and dreams deferred.
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Listen to devotional music available through Augsburg Fortress: “It is Well With My Soul;” “Rejoice and Let Your Lights Appear;” “The Beautiful Land.”
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If for any reason you need to find some calm in this election season, here’s 10 hours aboard the renowned Nordland Line (Nordlandsbanen), a pleasant winter journey into the Arctic Circle.
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Bruce Springsteen’s anthem Land of Hope and Dreams, with its “faith will be rewarded” line, provides us with a form of meditation.
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