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A Church Festival to Celebrate the Goodness of Creation?
September 5, 2024 0 Comments on A Church Festival to Celebrate the Goodness of Creation?
This blog post is written by Dr. Benjamin M. Stewart. Stewart is Distinguished Affiliate Professor of Worship at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and pastor to Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Two Harbors, Minnesota. A view of Assisi the day before the Feast of Creation Ecumenical Seminar began in March 2024 With growing mainstream awareness of environmental crises, several experiments with a liturgical “Season of Creation” have emerged. Now, a significant ecumenical movement is championing the inauguration of a liturgical “Feast of Creation” to be shared across Eastern and Western branches of Christianity. The possibility of the new…