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Circle of learning A long line of clergy follow in
the footsteps of Stanley Eck- lund (seated). He has had 25 interns in his ministry, and recently five generations of them gathered. Paul Hoffman (left) pastor of Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church in Seattle, was once Ecklund’s intern. Hoffman was internship super- visor for Brian Maas (behind Hoffman), Nebraska Synod bishop. Maas was internship supervisor for Aaron Erdley, First Lutheran Church, Lincoln, Neb., where Lauren Muratore now interns and where Ecklund and his wife, Jan, worship, still “grandparenting” every intern who arrives at their church.
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Justice for witches Bernice Mable Graham Telian, 82, doubts she’ll live long enough to see the name of her great-great- great-great-great-great-great-grand- mother and 10 others hanged in colonial Connecticut for witchcraft cleared. Telian was researching her family tree when she discovered that her seventh grandmother, Mary Barnes of Farmington, Conn., was sent to the gallows in 1663. Con- necticut executed suspected witches some 40 years before the infamous trials in Salem, Mass. But unlike Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Virginia, Connecticut has yet to acknowledge those executed.
More than an apology
A Dutch ecumenical leader said churches in the Netherlands must examine their role in the history of slavery and underlying prejudices that still exist in Dutch society. 2013 will mark 150 years since the Dutch abol- ished slavery. The Dutch West India Company shipped some 450,000 slaves from West Africa, mainly to plantations in the Dutch colonies of the Caribbean region, the Antilles and Suriname. Churches should be “hon- est about our past” and “the support- ive role” played by the church’s the- ology and clergy, said Klaas van der Kamp, general secretary of the Coun- cil of Churches in the Netherlands. “It is not difficult to draft a letter of apol-
ogy. … The skill is how to get church members to have feelings as to what this is about.”
Love, forgiveness in Assisi Swimming against a global tide of religious violence and political polarization, about 550 religious and humanitarian leaders in September met in Assisi, Italy—the birthplace of St. Francis—to propose a new way forward: love and forgiveness. The aim of the “global gathering” was to put those values to work in some of the most hate-filled and unforgiving places on Earth. For more than a year and a half the sponsor, Fetzer Insti- tute, poured $4.5 million into 16 advi- sory councils, which highlighted 150 exemplary projects, including par- ents in Uganda forgiving rebels who abducted, tortured or killed their chil- dren; bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families working to reconcile with each other; and San Quentin prison inmates learning how to listen to each other and forgive themselves.
Luther drama in Japan
Week 1- Dr. Terry Fretheim “God, Creation and the Problem of Suffering”
Week 2 - Dr. Marty Stortz “
Discipleship...in the Key of John”
Worship - Both weeks by Tom Witt & Mary Preus
To celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, a professor at Japan Lutheran College, Tokyo, will tell the story of Martin Luther using the form of traditional Japanese Noh drama. Dating from the 14th century, Noh features heroic themes, masks, music and stylized acting. Toshifumi Uemura’s first October 2010 perfor- mance at Minoridai Church in Chiba, a Japanese Evangelical Lutheran Church congregation, featured Luther answering questions about salva- tion and dancing to the words of “A Mighty Fortress.” A February 2012 performance in Kyoto also showed the spirit of Luther celebrating the 1999 “Joint Declaration on the Doc- trine of Justification.”
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