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 …
“I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree …” Joyce Kilmer I liked the Cleveland Tree long before it was possible to “like” this tree on Facebook. One runner who shares the walking/biking trail along Mississippi River Boulevard at the southern edge of the …
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 …
From two weeks ago, Wednesday, August 28th… “6:00 already – I was just in the middle of a dream …” This has to be the fault of the local DJ who decided to play “Manic Monday” by the Bangles just after 6:00 am on a Wednesday – not a Monday, …
… 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 …
This post started with a commentary in the Minneapolis Star Tribune by Brother Ali (a local hip-hop artist … but, if you’re not into hip-hop, don’t let that lead you to underestimate him; Brother Ali is very wise!). The commentary had to do with the recent arrest of MC Hammer …
Here’s the piece that started it all … … sort of. My road to blogging was driven by a need to have a way to post this piece that I’d written, which was published in the October 2012 issue of The Lutheran. Of course, there is a backstory to …
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 …