You are invited! What if we imagined our planet as a book that we could open and read? What would the pages and chapters tell us? Why would this be important for us today as we work to create lives for everyone to thrive? Click the link for more information about “Stories the Land Holds,” a series of events, speakers, and experiences for the community held at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Minneapolis, from October 2025 through May 2026. This series of offerings is sponsored and created by the Good Shepherd Anti-Racism group with a generous grant from the Foundation. Join me on October 9, 7 pm for the first event which I will be leading. Everyone is welcome!
One day while walking through Dinkytown (University of Minnesota campus), I found a Trilobite fossil in a pile of rocks dug up by utility workers.
Why are these curious large rocks on the shore of Lake Harriet?
What story do these slanted limestone slabs tell?
We meet a page of history as caution.
The confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers, Bdote in the Dakota language, is a place of deep story, sacred beginnings, tears, conflict, military presence, beauty, and promise.
More and more people populated the land between the rivers; the land tells stories of expectation, exclusion, struggle, and reckoning.
“Love one another,” Jesus of Nazareth said. “How do we help our hearts to grow?” asked Vietnamese poet Thich Nhat Hanh.