LSTC Learning Communities: Liturgy and the Natural World

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LSTC Learning Communities: Liturgy and the Natural World

by LSTC

In April 2024, we are delighted to announce that Dr. Benjamin Stewart, who until 2022 served as Gordon A. Braatz Associate Professor of Worship at LSTC, will be leading a session on the relationship between liturgy and nature.

We invite you to join us for an inspiring 4-part series, sponsored by LSTC Learning Communities, that explores the topic of nature and liturgy.

Dr. Stewart will lead this course for 4 Sundays, beginning April 7 from 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. CST. Or you can join Wednesdays beginning April 10from 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. CST.

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 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 theirhands, 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.

We encourage all interested members of our community to join us!