And So We Begin
After a long, but grace-filled call process, suddenly here we are at the beginning of a new season of shared ministry. I am excited to be...
Everyone Is an Interim
My time of providing pastoral leadership at St. Stephen's Lutheran Church is now coming to a close. What a joy this has been! This...
Living Our Welcome To Love, To Invite, To Serve
We represented St Stephen’s Lutheran Church at Delaware Pride 2023 in Dover on June 10. We encountered profound joy at our presence and...
Juneteenth
Juneteenth is our newest national holiday (since 2021) and one that non-African Americans are only recently learning about. Just in case...
Lean on Me
In 1972, Bill Withers wrote and recorded a song, Lean On Me, with lyrics that included the words: Lean on me, When you’re not strong,...
Cliché Alert!!!
It’s early June and time for all good pastors to write columns about summertime (and the livin’ is easy, etc.), and please don’t let your...
The Light Within
Percival Lowell was an American astronomer in the late 1800s. He was convinced there was a Planet X at the outer reaches of our solar...
Pente-what?
You might know that the three major festivals of the Church year are Christmas, Easter, and . . . that’s right, Pentecost. Or you might...
A Complicated Heritage
Today is Syttende Mai. Which means, being translated, “The Seventeenth of May.” Which, again, means, for those of us of Norwegian...
Faith in Action
The Greatest Commandment: One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer,...