Outward Journey / Inward Journey

Another community course, taught by the same person who led the ‘Goddess pilgrimage’:

What would happen [...] if we esteemed her even half as much as our forebearers did?

I will venture an answer: we would be breaking covenant with the One True God shown to us in Jesus Christ?

I’ll wash your mouth out with soap,
get rid of all the dirty false-god names,
not so much as a whisper of those names again.
(from Hosea, Ch. 2, The Message).

That it may be so, Lord!

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A pilgrimage to the Holy Land?  Maybe to the heartlands of the Reformation?  No, that would be far too orthodox.  From the United Theological Seminary, an apparently Christian seminary affiliated with the UCC: a ‘Pilgrimage to the Lands of the Goddess’, an event open to the community.  From the Spring 2008 issue of Lumen, the catalogue of community programs, your CUE donations hard at work (click for full-sized image):

So I’m at the Wisconsin Conference’s Annual Meeting in Green Lake and serving as a delegate for my congregation.  My pastor, the Rev. Philip Schneider, is one of the organizers of this thing, so we came down yesterday to help him set up.  I will try to post some different things as the meeting proceeds, although I’m not sure how interesting it will be because there’s nothing controversial coming up this year.  The theme is ‘Transforming Conflict in the Church’.