

The Uncertain Resource
God’s gift of water is becoming an endangered resource or as Larry Rasmussen calls it in his beautiful and informative book...


Believing in Saints
Last week at the Farmer’s Market, someone came up to us and said, “I didn’t think Lutherans believed in saints.” To which I replied, “We...


Day of Atonement
Years ago when we moved back to Minnesota for a year, one of the things I missed was the reminder of the Jewish holidays. In the town we...


"A World Class Saint"
“God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by...


Give Me What I Need
In May, a business owner in Washington declared that he was guaranteeing all of his employees a minimum salary of $70,000. Why that...


Queen of the PCT
People respond to grief in all sorts of healthy and unhealthy ways. The latter, I think, happens when we are afraid of grief’s pain and...


Summer's End
Summer's End by Judith Viorst One by one the petals drop There’s nothing that can make them stop. You cannot beg a rose to stay. Why...


Simul justus et peccator
I visited someone in the hospital yesterday who had another visitor bearing several tattoos. I saw that the one tattoo on his forearm...


Be Astonished
Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. -Mary Oliver- This is a quote from one of Mary Oliver’s...


Wall of Prayer
There are all sorts of walls. There is the one Israel has built to separate off Palestine. There is the other one in Israel called the...