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Jennifer Ohman-Rodriguez, Author

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Lead pastor at St John’s Lutheran Church (RIC) in Rock Island, Illinois. Author of A Time to Mourn and a Time to Dance: A Love Story of Grief, Trauma, Healing, and Faith (Chalice Press). Writer. Read my work at https://jenniferohmanrodriguez.com

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Resource Release Announcement! I am excited to be one of the writers for "Forgive Us and Transform Us for the Life of the World," a new resource from the ELCA. This resource contains stories, poetry, art, and explanations created by ELCA members to help people dig into what sexism and patriarchy are and how people experience them. "Forgive Us and Transform Us for the Life of the World" is free and can be accessed here.

Resource Release Announcement!

I am excited to be one of the writers for "Forgive Us and Transform Us for the Life of the World," a new resource from the ELCA. This resource contains stories, poetry, art, and explanations created by ELCA members to help people dig into what sexism and patriarchy…

05.08.2025 11:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Enjoying Berlin, Germany!

07.07.2025 13:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A few weeks ago we blessed the planting of our urban orchard. Yesterday, despite the heat, the blessing its growth and health!

23.06.2025 12:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sharing about Table Grace Ministries @ St. Johns on Saturday at the ELCA Northern Illinois Synod Assembly.

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Blessing the planters and the trees in St. Johns new urban orchard--a partnership with Tapestry Farms!

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Co-chaired our joint Pentecost worship service yesterday with Pastor Daniel Witkowski. Eight congregations came together to worship God and wonder about our shared future!

09.06.2025 12:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I am so excited that St. Johns Lutheran Church is planting an urban orchard tomorrow on one of our vacant lots. We are doing this in partnership with Tapestry Farms and will be the second urban orchard in the Quad Cities!

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We all need a little help...

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The Unbelieved Then the women remembered Jesus' words, and returning from the tomb they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest. Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told this to the apostles. But these words seemed to the apostles an idle tale, and they did not believe them.

The Unbelieved

Then the women remembered Jesus' words, and returning from the tomb they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest. Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told this to the apostles. But these words seemed to the apostles…

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Spring sky surrounds St. Johns, the congregation I am called to serve.

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It's spring and I'm enjoying the flowers! More from Como Park, St. Paul, Minnesota.

09.05.2025 12:13 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Flowers from a friend!

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Sisters!

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Vulnerability Creates Love: Thoughts on Maundy Thursday   I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.  By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13: 34-35* In a chapter entitled, “Places We Go When the Heart is Open,” author and professor Brené Brown writes “there is a debate among researchers about whether love is an emotion.” …

Vulnerability Creates Love: Thoughts on Maundy Thursday

  I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.  By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13: 34-35* In a chapter…

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A bit of Como Park calm.

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#vagusnerve #vagaltone #vagus #vagusnervehealing #polyvagal… | Polyvagal Institute | 13 comments The vagus nerve is a primary carrier of information describing the state of the body to the brain, and transmitting information from the brain back to the body. It’s a feedback mechanism which is resp...
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An Arizona memory.

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Palm Sunday Worship and Pretzels!

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Something we are up to at St. Johns! #recovery #churchhurt

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Hands Off! Rally in Davenport, Iowa.

07.04.2025 12:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Washing Feet Jesus... got up from supper, took off his outer robe, and tied a towel around himself. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was tied around him. ~John 13: 3-5, NRSVUE Adapted Each week chefs use our congregation's professional kitchen as commissary for their businesses or in volunteering their time and talents to feed people at our two weekly community meals.

Washing Feet

Jesus... got up from supper, took off his outer robe, and tied a towel around himself. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was tied around him. ~John 13: 3-5, NRSVUE Adapted Each week chefs use our congregation's…

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People still want to join congregations! #RIC #traumainformed

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A Polyvagal Approach to Working with Shame - Stephen Porges Stephen Porges, PhD shares a Polyvagal approach to help clients regulate themselves and process feelings of shame.

Reading a lot about shame. Here's a video from Stephen Porges on shame.

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Richard Rohr tells the truth again!

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After my first husband died unexpectedly, I found this magnet in his office.

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"Violence can never heal the harm that has been done."
~Kazu Haga

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Leading worship.

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Wow! I made into this post by the ELCA Northern Illinois Synod!

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