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A Prayer for Peace

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 …

Mid-Lent Check Up

Shout aloud, do not hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Announce to my people their rebellion …   Perhaps Lent started for you with these words from Isaiah (Chapter 58) back on Ash Wednesday; perhaps with other words declaring a fast – or something like it. Fasting …

Toward a New Pentecost

Pentecost has come … and gone … at least the festival day, the celebration of the momentous day millennia ago regarded as the birth of the Church … the very public launch of the Christian movement … when the first followers of Jesus began the work of carrying on what …

Advent Ponderings

When Advent began, the brilliant colors of autumn had long since faded to dull brown.  Everything was gray-tinged … the old leaves … the bare trunks and branches … the dormant grass.  The world looked ready to be tucked into bed for the winter-long nap with a blanket of snowy …

The piece that needed a place …

An edited version of this piece was published in the October 2012 issue of The Lutheran.  This is my original submission …. I shared Bishop Michael Rinehart’s piece about outsiders and insiders on Facebook weeks before it appeared in The Lutheran.  Although his choice of worship, especially hymns, as an example …