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Never The Chameleon

by Anna Madsen

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Anna Madsen is a Public Theologian, a rostered ELCA pastor, and yet serves out her call on her own platform--unaffiliated with the ELCA--of OMG: Center for Theological Conversation. She and her family live north of Duluth, Minnesota, and host The Spent Dandelion Theological Retreat Center. This podcast will tend to be audioclips of her Substack blog as well as her sermons and presentations. The title of her podcast comes from a passage of Kaj Munk, the Danish resistance preacher and martyr, killed by the Nazis for his prophetic pulpit speech. He wrote: "And remember the signs of the Christian Church have been the Lion, the Lamb, the Dove, and the Fish…but never the chameleon." revdrannam.substack.com

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