The View from Your Pew

by Eric Herron | May 17, 2011

Date: April 22, 2011

Time: 7 p.m.

Location: Des Moines, Iowa

Church: Des Moines Intentional Eucharistic Community

Caption: This Good Friday/Earth Day installation included 40 jars of myrrh, acrylic on wood panel (5′ diam.), four bowls, candles, and a few LED lights. Worshipers were given a small envelope of myrrh upon entering the sanctuary. After a few words about myrrh (botany: it is secreted by the plant to staunch a wound; ancient liturgy: used as a burial spice; contemporary liturgy: burned as incense), worshipers were invited to pour their myrrh on the wounds of our world as they prayed for healing. These images cannot capture the sound the tears of myrrh made as it fell on the earth panel – think rainstick without the stick.

Images © Ted Lyddon Hatten

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About Eric Herron

Eric is the Lead Site Editor for Clayfire Curator. He has also begun a missional experiment through his work with Church Resource Ministries (CRM). Pasadena, California is his laboratory. Eric and his wife Nathalie are part of the leadership team of Tribe, Los Angeles. They have a toddler named Asher Ericson and twins, Zane Ezekiel and Penelope Jade, born March 10, 2011. Explore some of Eric's original music at unkeptrecords.com

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