Tag: Diversity
ELCA Churchwide Organization (CWO) Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Learning Day!
June 11, ELCA Churchwide Organization (CWO) Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Learning Day! The ELCA churchwide organization will host a learning day for CWO staff highlighting ministries that reach historically underrepresented groups in church and society. The day will feature 55-minute workshops, presented by churchwide staff and ELCA affiliated organization. Colleagues will select topics related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accountability. The goal is to: Highlight diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) Strengthen how we live these commitments within the churchwide organization Deepen our relationship with underrepresented communities in church and society Rev. Lisa Heffernan will be presenting on…
The Christian God’s ‘Multiplicity, Individuality and Diversity of Perfections’: Mysterium Trinitatis
When reflecting on the Holy Trinity, given the reality that it is as they say mysterium Trinitatis, I think it is best to recognize this doxological reality and allow that to shape the way the Christian wades into this Holy of Holies. Epiphanius once wrote: God is one, the Father in the Son, the Son in the Father with the Holy Spirit . . . true enhypostatic Father, and true enhypostatic Son, and true enhypostatic Holy Spirit, three Persons, one Godhead, one being, one glory, one God. In thinking of God you conceive of the Trinity, but without confusing in…