Save the date for Zion’s Adult Vacation Bible School!!
This event will take place on July 29-31, 2024, from 9 am to noon each day.
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The theme is “Liturgy and the Natural World” and we will explore nature and liturgy. Our guest speaker, Rev. Dr. Benjamin M. Stewart serves as Distinguished Affiliate Faculty at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and as Pastor to Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Two Harbors, Minnesota. A recent migrant to Duluth, Minnesota, Ben is a member of the North American Academy of Liturgy and contributes to its Ecology and Liturgy Seminar. He is the author of A Watered Garden: Christian Worship and Earth’s Ecology (2011).
Session Summary:
According to the Bible, the universe is like a cosmic choir where stars sing for joy, trees clap their hands, and waters roar hymns of praise. Humans – among the youngest of earth’s species – are sometimes like latecomers to choir practice, learning from other creatures how to “join their unending hymn.” In this crucial ecological moment, we take a journey to four destinations to help us reimagine our communal liturgies and our daily rituals for the life of the world: the whole cosmos; the cycle of night and day; the sacraments; and our bodies themselves as sacred ground.
Rev. Dr. Benjamin M. Stewart