Tag: Remembering

June 17th is Emanuel Nine Commemoration and Day of Repentance. The following are shareable resources you can use within your local context for commemorations, services, and personal development. Further information and resources can be found on the ELCA’s Commemoration of the Emanuel Nine – June 17 webpage. The following paragraph describing this commemoration could be provided for congregations in resources such as service folders. Emanuel Nine, martyrs, 2015 On June 17, 2015, Clementa C. Pinckney, Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd, Susie Jackson, Ethel Lee Lance, DePayne Middleton-Doctor, Tywanza Sanders, Daniel Lee Simmons, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, and Myra Thompson were murdered by a self-professed…

For a long time, no one in Tulsa’s white or black communities talked about the massacre that destroyed the Greenwood district in May 1921. Those who were there remembered.  A few kept the memory alive.  But most simply chose to forget. Shrouded in silence for decades, it lay there in the heart of the city, eating away at it like a cancer.   History — especially difficult, painful history — needs to be remembered. It needs to be talked about, studied, examined and explored. Not to make people feel guilty or ashamed, but to be honest, forthright and aware of…

Susan Palo Cherwien, Lutheran hymnwriter and poet, died December 28, 2021. Her hymns and meditations have been a gift to the church and world. Eight of her hymns are included in Evangelical Lutheran Worship: As the Dark Awaits the Dawn  261 Come, Beloved of the Maker  306 Day of Arising  374 O Blessed Spring  447 Rise, O Church, like Christ Arisen  548 Beloved, God’s Chosen  648 Signs and Wonders  672 In Deepest Night  699 Eight hymns are also included in All Creation Sings, the worship and song supplement to ELW: As Your Spirit in the Desert  923 Christ Is the…