Lectionary blog for Jan. 6, 2018 Epiphany of our Lord Isaiah 60:1-6; Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14; Ephesians 3:1-12; Matthew 2:1-12 The first Sunday of the calendar year we celebrate by remembering…
Editor’s note: This is a reprint of the January 2017 column from the presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Ah, a new year! It opens up before…
Lectionary blog for Dec. 30, 2018 The first Sunday after Christmas 1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26; Psalm 148; Colossians 3:12-17; Luke 2:41-52 Some years ago, I returned to a former parish…
If you’d asked me a decade ago what grace meant to me, I’m not sure I could have answered. Or I would have said something like “the gifts of God…
Most of us in the religion business can relate to this scenario: you are on a plane and end up sitting next to someone who asks you, “What do you…
One of my favorite parts of Advent and Christmas are the songs. I especially like “We Three Kings” because it describes Jesus’ life, death and resurrection from the point of…
I’ve always wondered why so many people flocked out to see John the Baptist in the wilderness. Studying in Chicago many summers ago, I regularly encountered a wild-looking guy on…
Lectionary blog for Dec. 9, 2018 The Second Sunday of Advent Malachi 3:1-4; Luke 1:68-79; Philippians 1:3-11; Luke 3:1-6 I can still hear my father and uncle arguing around the…
How many gifts have you received over a lifetime? Hundreds? Some are easily forgotten—stored in your attic of faded memories. But others you remember and cherish in your heart all…
Our notions about who God is and where God is are powerful conceptions. As Franciscan priest and writer Richard Rohr has said, “Our operative image of God is the first…
Lectionary blog for Dec. 2, 2018 First Sunday of Advent Jeremiah 33:14-16; Psalm 25:1-9; 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13; Luke 21:25-36 My friend spent a semester at Cambridge University in England. During his time there, he…
ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton was a co-signatory of an ecumenical statement sent November 14 to all members of the U.S. Congress and Senate, as well as to the White…
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