There isn’t much TV that I watch consistently. In fact, I haven’t checked out any of the new shows that have debuted as this new season starts. But I am looking forward to the January-February mid-season interim when American Crime will be back for a third season. The decision to …
I’m indebted to pastor & author Walter Wangerin, Jr. for the title line (which also appears in the text) as well as for the indentifier “the fear-not angel.” I also want to acknowledge my mom for the theological insight she gave me twenty-some years ago… We’re here tonight because it’s …
A Prayer for Peace… … On the occasion of the 2015 National Vigil to #EndGunViolence Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, Saint Paul, Minnesota December 9, 2015 O Lord our God, maker of all things… Hear your children as we pray by the many names with which we cry out …
“… The flowers and the candles are stronger than the guns.” ~ A father in Paris to his son at one of the memorial sites after the November 13th attacks A week later, I’m unsure which I find more sickening: the attacks themselves or the nasty reactions by people here …
About two weeks ago, I was on my way home from another trip through Saint Louis. Last year, about that same time, I was on the first of several trips through Saint Louis that I would make in the following twelve months. That first trip was also a short time …
When I saw the title (“Dear God”) and the briefest of plot synopses (Christian mediation) for the episode of The Good Wife that aired on CBS on Sunday, October 5th, I wondered. It’s not very often that television gets this stuff right. Sure, The Good Wife is reliably one …
Donald … Byron … Teenagers Shot … And a much bigger question we’d rather not face At the end of April, two disparate events happened in the same 24-hour news cycle. Both are still being heard on appeal in the respective venues in which their cases have been …
My husband wasn’t thrilled with the idea of getting a minivan. But with one child in his toddler years and a second child on the way, neither my Plymouth Horizon nor his Plymouth Sundance would meet the needs of our growing family. One of the cars had to be traded …
… One week after the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial Because the congregation where I’m providing extended pulpit supply this summer is using a Narrative Lectionary Format, we’re two weeks ahead of the Revised Common Lectionary right now. Those of you who will be working with this passage …
I’ve been working on this one for some time and now seems like a good time to put it out there. It’s been over six months – more than half a year – since the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Remember how so many vowed …