my church doing blue for Advent ✨🥰👼🏼💙🦋🥹🕊️🙏🏼 my church NOT doing rose for Gaudete 🥀😭💔🌸🥺🪿👎🏻

the Swedish American pronunciation of Lucia (Lucy-uh) is sooooo much better than the standard American Loosha

Respectfully, Congresswoman, you voted with Republicans to strip due process from immigrants and to praise Trump's ICE. This year. Now you're upset? Votes have consequences. Minnesotans deserve better.

I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve said I’m “not Catholic, just Swedish” when my classmates question something about my piety lol

chaotic day in Lutheran Facebook land as the ELCA’s “flagship” seminary announced a $10 million Lilly grant partnership with the LCMC’s largest congregation (which left the ELCA last year) many queer + ally students and alums expressing their concern and feelings of betrayal and disappointment

Minnesota is glorious in the summer but winter is when Minnesota really feels like Minnesota

Minnesota doesn’t just welcome refugees, they sent one to Congress. 💪🏽

Voting for the Laken Riley Act directly led to what’s happening now with ICE in Minneapolis. You had a chance to stand up for our neighbors then. Posting is not going to help them now. What’s the plan to actually do something?

The idols of the nations are copper and silicon, made by human hands. They generate, but cannot write; imitate, but cannot create. They give advice but cannot think, nor is there breath in their mouths. Those who make them become like them, and so will all who trust in them. Psalm 135 (updated)

ICE is coming to the twin cities, particularly targetting our wonderful somali community. Pray for their safety, pray that the Church here boldly stands with our immigrant neighbors. Pray for the abolition of ICE. ⚓️

It’s a sin against God and good taste that the American Lutheran Church’s former national headquarters is now site of the Hennepin County Jail

"It is perfectly normal for kids to follow gender 'stereotypes' because that is how God made us." This statement is both theologically and historically suspect -- like, even if you think God wants men to "act like men," what men act like has not been remotely consistent across periods & societies.

So I know there are a million more pressing issues with this but the thing that struck me, reading this stupid essay, is how atrocious her Biblical scholarship is.

haunting images

Delightful morning at Mount Olive! I got to preach at the 8:00 and the 10:45, Pastor led an engaging and insightful adult forum on Mary Magdalene, and several friends joined for worship! (Wesley and his siblings, dear @margueritek.bsky.social, and my pastor care prof!) My heart is so full 🥹🕊️🕯️

need one of those bell curve memes with: • on one side it’s Evangelicals saying, “Jesus is my boyfriend :)” • the middle is the Frozen Chosen saying, “Jesus is NOT your boyfriend, have some respect!!!!!!” • and then the other side is me and the mystics saying, “Jesus is my boyfriend :)”

Christ the King Sunday is the perfect opportunity to remind everyone that the separation of church and state protects both the church *and* the state from each other.

My Catholic faith calls me to welcome the stranger. Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda rejects the humanity of our immigrant neighbors. We need to build an immigration system based on dignity, due process, and safety for everyone.

pretty views from my driveway :)

abolish the senate

Fifty years ago today the Edmund Fitzgerald set out on her final voyage.

Church is better when it's gay

one of my favorite pieces of folk religion — in Swedish, there’s only one word for dove and pigeon (as they’re essentially the same thing), so above the pulpits in these old country churches, they have depicted the Holy Spirit as their own local pigeon variant. delightful!! 🕊️🕯️✨

the downfall of Target can be directly linked to their abandoning of their Minnesota roots Minnesotans love DEI and hate talking to strangers in the store good luck Target

God bless Brenden, my gay, former Catholic, atheist/agnostic therapist who has to spend every Tuesday from 2 to 3 unpacking the Fourth Commandment with me

My great grandfather’s confirmation certificate from 1913. He was confirmed at the Evangelical Church of Peace (now Peace UCC) in Rochester, Minnesota. An interesting reminder that a huge chunk of UCC churches in Minnesota started as German Reformed congregations. What a fun piece of legacy!

3 of the 6 people in the chancel party today were named Erik or Eric hehe what a happy new experience

dreaming again about being in Sweden with Wesley ✨

I used to think saying “oh my God” was the most common form of taking the Lord’s name in vain but now I think the most common example of it is people with “Christ is King ✝️” in their bios who spend every waking hour harassing queer people and feminists on the internet

the most Minnesotan costumes at the party — the Edmund Fitzgerald and the storm that wrecked her ⛈️🚢⛈️

Westminster Presbyterian has such a pretty Luther window

a beautiful day for a protest at noon and an ordination at three!

not to lib out too hard but I did just start crying listening to some of the Hamilton soundtrack because I actually do love America and am sad to feel like we're losing it

Utah needs its own version of an Icelandic Naming Committee

I love all my Anglicans and Episcopalians ♥️🕯️🕊️🫂 I am forever grateful for The Episcopal Church and the Church of England’s witness to the gospel and faithfulness to God and God’s people.

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes. Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

JB is my woke dad

Pope Leo is spitting. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

accidentally signed up to an email list as Erin instead of Erik and tried to unsubscribe because I got annoyed BUT THE UNSUBSCRIBE DIDNT WORK and now I’m stuck receiving daily emails for Erin Nelson ugh

it’s particularly painful to me that this is happening to Illinois, the land of Lincoln and Grant, the state whose motto is “State Sovereignty, National Union.”

a Confederate flag made it into the Capitol on January 6 … Texas troops are seeking to occupy Chicago … the Confederacy lost the battle in 1865 but refuses to give up the war

found a tomato cross (???) in the church’s stained glass. anyone have any idea what it means? 🕯️🍅🕊️

happy Sunday!! go to church!!

Getting settled in for the Installation of the Fifth Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Yehiel Curry. Come Holy Spirit! 🔥🕊️🕯️

love the album but it kinda feels like he took away all her Aristotle

yay :)

I will cry if Sweden’s Archbishop isn’t at the ELCA’s Presiding Bishop installation on Saturday :/

The existence of this image alone makes Minnesota’s whole new flag process worth it … it’s an elite flag that just keeps growing on me