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 …
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 …
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 …
The word Lent (as in “the season of,” not a form of “to lend”), we’re told, comes from an Old English word meaning spring. That being the case, if ever we truly needed Lent, this would be the year … at least in northern climes. Despite fairly late start to …
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 …
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 …