Anna Madsen

An ELCA Rev Dr; public theologian; runs OMG: Center for Theological Conversation & The Spent Dandelion Theological Retreat Center; mama; has a low fun-threshold

[Anna Madsen @RevDrAnnaM]

Last night I finished the manuscript for my new book.

Lots of 🥂 here, because book writing, pandemics, single parenting, plus general adulting —> 😬.

Today I learned you can pre-order it.

More 🍾, 😬, last-minute 💻, and 🤞before it goes off for good.

https://t.co/U5XwwdgFGa

[Anna Madsen @RevDrAnnaM]

@brianstelter @jackmjenkins @statesnewsroom 550 in Two Harbors, along Minnesota’s North Shore!

[Anna Madsen @RevDrAnnaM]

@DavidDark @DPCassidyTKC @jdhutch64 @dustinwmesser @AnnaCaudill4 @mattsteinhauer @matthewsully @MariaLeeTN @BillLeeTN Do you renounce guns? Do you renounce white supremacy? Do you renounce bigotry? Do you renounce Christian nationalism? Do you renounce the exploitation of the earth? Do you renounce capitalism?

Suddenly, the pews go silent.

And for reasons stated above, so do rostered leaders.

[Anna Madsen @RevDrAnnaM]

@DavidDark @DPCassidyTKC @jdhutch64 @dustinwmesser @AnnaCaudill4 @mattsteinhauer @matthewsully @MariaLeeTN @BillLeeTN And after each time, the congregation says “I renounce them!” Hopefully, with some meaning in it.

But what meaning do these promises make when we don’t get specific?

[Anna Madsen @RevDrAnnaM]

@DavidDark @DPCassidyTKC @jdhutch64 @dustinwmesser @AnnaCaudill4 @mattsteinhauer Meanwhile, any exhortations to rostered leaders must be tempered with compassion, and spiritual as well as tangible support and en-couragement.

Sorry about the length.

I have opinions, and some decent passion behind them, and the both sometimes get the better of me!

[Anna Madsen @RevDrAnnaM]

@DavidDark @DPCassidyTKC @jdhutch64 @dustinwmesser @AnnaCaudill4 @mattsteinhauer Those who belong to denominations would do well to abandon tinkering with the system. Instead, we should focus on making like Jesus, dying and being raised again into something the same and yet utterly new.