Every Wednesday evening, students share a meal and worship together at Agape House, the Lutheran-Episcopal campus ministry at San Diego State University. The meal is a long-standing tradition of fellowship,…
Lectionary blog for May 22 The Holy Trinity – First Sunday after Pentecost Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31; Psalm 8; Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-25 About 20 years ago I served a church…
Everyday, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions are offered as a guide for your own…
Lectionary blog for May 15, 2016 Day of Pentecost Acts 2:1-21; Psalm 104:24-34, 35b; Romans 8:14-17; John 14:8-17 25-27> A few years ago, USA Today had a piece about the…
Jason DeRose has known he wanted to be a journalist since the sixth grade, so he was as surprised as anyone to find himself at the University of Chicago earning…
Everyday, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions are offered as a guide for your own…
Madeline Wilson (center), a student at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn., stands for a portrait with fellow students who are involved with her campaign asking the college to reform its…
Lectionary blog for May 8, 2016 Seventh Sunday of Easter Acts 16:16-34; Psalm 97; Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21; John 17:20-26 This is Mother’s Day. When I was a kid, my…
Lectionary blog for May 1, 2016 Sixth Sunday of Easter Acts 16:9-15; Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5; John 14:23-29 In June of 1977, I – along 20 other women and men – was…
Dave Belcher served in the Army for 17 years. He was a platoon sergeant and received a Bronze Star and a Combat Infantry Badge, but he came home with a…
Lectionary blog for April 24, 2016 Fifth Sunday of Easter Acts 11:1-18, Psalm 148, Revelation 21:1-6, John 13:31-35 My sister and her husband attend a church that is part of…
Lectionary blog for April 17, 2016 Fourth Sunday of Easter Acts 9:36-43; Psalm 23; Revelation 7:9-17; John 10:22-30 I recently conducted the funeral for a woman in her 90s who…
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