Ordination

The New Leaders

Posted on September 10, 2014September 9, 2014 by Laura Brekke

On a Saturday afternoon at the beginning of August, I paced around the narthex of my grey stone home church where friends and colleagues were gathered in their clergy robes and stoles. This was the ch... Read More

Ethically Lost

Posted on July 11, 2014July 10, 2014 by Christi Mallasch

A few years ago, my family was attending an out-of-town reunion in a tiny and strangely laid out town in Indiana. Being big believers in carpooling, we drove to all of the various events together, pac... Read More

Online Clergy In the Age of I-everything

Posted on December 7, 2012December 6, 2012 by Lauren Tuchman

This past week, The Jewish Daily Forward published an article entitled, “Online Ordained Rabbis Grab Pulpits.” This article profiles several synagogues who, in this difficult economic climate, hav... Read More

Theology of the Body, Episode I: The Orans Gesture in Christian Prayer

Posted on November 4, 2012November 3, 2012 by Alasdair Ekpenyong

This is the first installment in an ongoing series that will explore issues in spirituality through a review of significant symbolic motions, poses, and gestures from a variety of religious traditions... Read More

Heteronomy and the Inner Lyra: On Not Becoming Ordained

Posted on March 1, 2012February 29, 2012 by Kari Aanestad

On Thursday, February 23, 2012, I made the most difficult decision of my life: I formally withdrew from the candidacy process for ordination in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). At le... Read More