This time last year, I had a remarkable dinner with seven extraordinary people of faith. The setting fit the celebratory occasion: a restaurant with wood-paneled walls that were decorated with…
Since the fourth century, the traditional date of Easter for most Christians has fallen on the first Sunday after the first full moon that comes after the spring equinox. Last…
I come from a political family. Well, sort of. It’s probably more accurate to say I come from a family of public servants. On my mother’s side, my grandfather spent…
Between two Sundays, two sabbaths, this month our church will gather in a special way for the 2016 ELCA Churchwide Assembly (under the theme “Freed and Renewed in Christ”). Most…
Next month, the 2016 ELCA Churchwide Assembly heads to New Orleans, a city that occupies a special place in my heart. Having grown up in a family that moved often, we…
Here we are, in the season after Pentecost that we sometimes refer to simply as “ordinary time.” It’s a long season, welcomed by the long days of summer. We might…
Here between Easter and Pentecost, our church finds itself in something of an interim time. It is, as poet and philosopher John O’Donohue reminds us, a time when the old…
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Easter is about a lot of things, but it isn’t about predictability.
Here we are, practitioners of memos: We send email and we receive it, We copy it and forward it and save it and delete it. We write to move the…
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