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Healing Minnesota Services

Everyone is invited to services of song, speakers and spiritual reflection that inspire love, respect and healing in a time of division about the proposed constitutional amendment on marriage rights. Read the ministers' op-ed, "A Call for Healing," in the Southwest Journal.

These services started Sept. 25, 2011, with preacher Barbara Lundblad. She said: Gay marriage hasn't hurt marriage in Massachusetts, which has a very low divorce rate, "and it won't in Minnesota, either."

Healing Minnesota services take place 5 p.m., fourth Sundays (except December) through October 2012.
Oct. 23, 2011 Edwin Kelley

Nov. 27, 2011 Rebecca Voelkel

Jan. 22. 2012 Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak speaks; actor Sally Wingert reads

Feb. 26, 2012 State Senator John Marty speaks; Jearlyn Steele sings

March 25, 2012 Senior Minister James Gertmenian speaks; Connie Evingson sings.

April 22, 2012 Mary Albing speaks; Bradley Greenwald sings (bios at right).

May 27, 2012 Service of words and music; Maria Jette, soprano

June 24, 2012 Speaker is Rabbi Marcia Zimmerman, from Temple Israel; Linda Kelsey reads

July 22, 2012 Javen Swanson and Oby Ballinger speak; Steve Harlan Marks sings

Aug. 26, 2012 Don Shelby speaks

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Oct. 28, 2012 Marilyn Carlson Nelson speaks; One Voice Mixed Chorus sings; Sam King reads.

 

April 22

[MP3 recording of the April 22 service]

Bradley Greenwald has performed opera, theater, music-theater, concert and recital repertoire with such Twin Cities’ arts organizations as Jungle Theater, Children's Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, Minnesota Dance Theatre, VocalEssence, Minnesota Orchestra, Lyra Baroque Orchestra, A Prairie Home Companion, 10,000 Things, Skylark Opera and Ballet of the Dolls.

Mary Albing is a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Ordained for Word and Sacrament ministry in 1988, she has served parishes in eastern North Dakota and Minneapolis, and as a chaplain and Clinical Pastoral Education Supervisory candidate at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis. She was adjunct professor in homiletics at Luther seminary. She has published a number of parish education materials for the ELCA and a book, Called Into Ministry (Kirk House Press).
Mary has served Lutheran Church of Christ the Redeemer in Southwest Minneapolis, a congregation devoted to social justice and worship, since 2003. She was technically on leave from call, and the congregation technically vacant, for seven years as the ELCA struggled with its policies with respect to LGBT rostered ministers. Her ministry was formally recognized in 2010 as the first partnered lesbian pastor in the ELCA. She and her partner Jane have two grown children, Hannah and Dan, a daughter-in-law, Bethany, and two spoiled dogs, Bubbles and Bianca.

 

Jazz artist Connie Evingson (above) joined Senior Minister James Gertmenian for the Healing Minnesota service, 5 p.m., March 25.

On Feb. 26, 5 p.m., State Senator John Marty spoke about love overcoming fear, Jearlyn Steele sang "How Great Thou Art" and "This Day" at the Healing Minnesota service.

Minneapolis Mayor R. T. Rybak spoke on the theme "You are not alone," at the 5 p.m., Jan. 22 Healing Minnesota service. Sally Wingert, actor, read poetry and prose, and Plymouth Church soloists Maria Jette, Jenny French, Dan Dressen and Jim Bohn sang.

 

"Rooted in God's Love" was the topic Nov. 27 for the Rev. Rebecca Voelkel, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. [Video excerpt from talk.]

Singing at the Nov. 27 Healing Minnesota service were Anders Eckman, Andrew Kane, Ryan French and Ray Noble, members of VocalEssence Ensemble Singers.

Healing Minnesota bulletin, Oct. 23, 2011

Po Cheng (Ritual Bell), artist unknown, China, late 6th–early 5th century B.C.E., Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

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