A Video Series by the EcoFaith Network, NE MN Synod
Listen with us to the haunting Easter hymn, Now the Green Blade Rises,
Look with us throughout this Jubilee year of Earth Day
for the green blades rising in and for a wounded creation
Listen with us to the haunting Easter hymn, Now the Green Blade Rises,
Look with us throughout this Jubilee year of Earth Day
for the green blades rising in and for a wounded creation
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Exploitation When we use the world as if it were our own, Planting seed with poison, causing earth to moan, Earth turns to sand, and ice melts into sea, Rivers turn to mud, and putrid ponds turn green. Text by Paul Jacobson, tune Noel Novellet (Now the Green Blade Rises) This prophetically stirring and artistically stunning the video continues the EcoFaith Network’s video conversation series, Moments of Arising, flowing from the haunting Easter hymn, Now the Green Blade Rises. Exploitation features the performance of Paul Jacobson’s arrangement of stanza 2 and a reflection by Deacon Candidate Colleen Bernu, member of the Fond du Lac Band of Ojibwe and chair of the synod’s Together Here Task Force, who draws from Native American perspective to tell the story of creation’s cry for healing and balance. Moments of Arising is a video conversation series produced by the EcoFaith Network, NE MN Synod, celebrating the Jubilee Year of Earth Day as a Sabbath year of coming home, of restoration and regeneration for the land itself as well as for the neighbor. It is dedicated to nurturing a grassroots faith movement to repair our relationship with the torn web of creation. Exploitation is the second of eight short videos, each wrapped around one of the hymn’s eight stanzas, four original stanzas and four newly composed, environmentally focused stanzas. Each includes a litany, scripture, the music of the stanza, and a relevant message from a different speaker, and ends with a question to stimulate conversation and action. A captioned version of this video is available at: https://vimeo.com/438545433/5a7ed8afd6 |
Moments of Arising
Eight brief videos reflecting on the Jubilee Year of Earth Day flowing from Now the Green Blade Rises - Four original and four new environmentally focused stanzas |
Promise
Starting with visually stunning images of Lake Superior that accompany a northern Thanksgiving for Baptism, followed by scripture readings and a flute and soprano performance of the first stanza of Now the Green Blade Rises, we hear Nate Anderson from Oak Lake Lutheran Church in rural Kerrick reflect on practicing the resurrection promise in the earthy terms of seasons and seeds. The fourth in the video conversation series,Moments of Arising, Promise is the first of eight 10-minute videos flowing from one of eight stanzas of the Easter hymn, Now the Green Blade Rises (ELW#379), four original stanzas and four newly composed environmentally focused stanzas. Each of the eight will include a litany, scripture, the music of the stanza, and a relevant message from a different speaker, ending with a question to stimulate conversation and action.
Starting with visually stunning images of Lake Superior that accompany a northern Thanksgiving for Baptism, followed by scripture readings and a flute and soprano performance of the first stanza of Now the Green Blade Rises, we hear Nate Anderson from Oak Lake Lutheran Church in rural Kerrick reflect on practicing the resurrection promise in the earthy terms of seasons and seeds. The fourth in the video conversation series,Moments of Arising, Promise is the first of eight 10-minute videos flowing from one of eight stanzas of the Easter hymn, Now the Green Blade Rises (ELW#379), four original stanzas and four newly composed environmentally focused stanzas. Each of the eight will include a litany, scripture, the music of the stanza, and a relevant message from a different speaker, ending with a question to stimulate conversation and action.
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Watch the introductory video
Moments of Arising ~ an invitation This 15 minute video introduces Moments of Arising, a year long video series being produced by the EcoFaith Network of the NE MN Synod, ELCA. With reflections by Kristin Foster, Mark Ditmanson, and David Carlson, flute performed by Paul Jacobson, and scripture read by Johanna Bernu, this introductory video invites you, even during the coronavirus pandemic, to look and listen for green blades rising throughout the Jubilee Year of Earth Day. Created by videographer Linda Kalweit and the EcoFaith Leadership Team, with photography by Will Stenburg. Earth Day/ Earth Week Click the titles to view the video! Earth Day’s Jubilee Year Professor Diane Levy Jacobson explores the ancient tradition of jubilee proclaimed in Leviticus and Isaiah and continuing in Luke, and how it is connected to Earth Day 2020, now in its 50th year. With breath-taking nature photography by J. David Levy, the video contemplates jubilee ideas of rest for the land, release from servitude, relation to the foreigner and immigrant, and other concepts that are strikingly connected to our experience in this time of climate crisis, cultural tension, and pandemic strife. Earth Day, Our Moment to Arise Around the world, youth and young adults are urging us to heed the climate emergency -- for the sake of their future, for those who are marginalized, and for all life on Earth. In this video, Earth Day, Our Moment to Arise, four high school and young adult climate advocates from the upper Midwest – Izzy Laderman, Johanna Bernu, Kayli Skinner, and Jordan Stone, with EcoFaith co-chairperson Pastor Kristin Foster -- probe the intersections between the coronavirus pandemic and the climate crisis, and challenge us to make critical decisions about a profound and shared change in direction. These Earth Day videos are part of the new series, Moments of Arising produced by the EcoFaith Network of the NE Minnesota Synod of the ELCA. Beginning around Pentecost, throughout this Jubilee year, we will share a series of 10 minute videos. Each one will flow from one of the eight stanzas of Now the Green Blade Rises, four of which are newly composed, environmentally focused. Each will include prayer and a relevant message by a different speaker. Listen with us to the haunting Easter hymn, Now the Green Blade Rises. Look with us throughout this Jubilee year of Earth Day for the green blades rising in and for a wounded creation. Young earth advocates raise their voices calling us with them into this moment to arise |
Stay Connected!
ecofaith@nemnsynod.org …or contact EcoFaith Network Leadership Team Co-Chairs Pastor David Carlson pastor@gloriadeiduluth.org Pastor Kristin Foster revkristinfoster@gmail.com Resources
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