St. Stephen's Lutheran Church

For the first time in eight years I am not spending Holy Week drowning in the paperwork that comes with five worship services in eight...

The Lutheran church is changing. When I was a child, the baptismal font was hidden away. I remember being baptized in a small, dark,...

My one-year-Bible-reading plan goes in fits and spurts. If I stay on the current track it will have taken me only 1 ½ years. Last fall I...

Several years ago those attending Synod Assembly received buttons which read: "I am an evangelical. I share the good news." I'm a...

I love Lent. As Hannah Boettcher said at choir rehearsal, I love all the music in minor keys. The Bible readings are full of wonderful...

"The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's great hunger meet." Frederick Buechner This was the...

I'm a really bad backer-upper. Which is why at 10:40 last Wednesday morning my car was sitting on top of a snow pile in Ruth Joe's front...

This is a hard week. People are having to tell their children, and their children's children, that long-time member Fran McKewen died. As...

I meet with a group of women once a month. We share an interest in embroidery. When we gather, we show off our finished projects and our...

Something in Sunday's sermon caught my attention: "Jesus' miracles sometimes required a lot of work from his disciples." Servants had to...