Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me … (Lamentations 1:12) Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? We were driving to church for Maundy Thursday services, taking the usual …
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 …
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 …
I can see my rocking chair again, even sit in it – if I want …which I haven’t in a long time. Until about two months ago, it had gradually disappeared under a rapidly growing pile of things … things like pillows and bedding … surrounded by furnishings like a …
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 …
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 …
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 …