

Inviting Quiet
Keeping Quiet By Pablo Neruda Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still. For once on the face of the earth, let's not...


Courageous Trust
While on vacation my son Per and I went canoeing down the Brule River in northern Wisconsin. We started at Stones Bridge and got out at...


Fabric of Life
I’ve just returned from a trip to North Dakota and Brule, Wisconsin. The latter is a place where we have, as my husband likes to say,...


Journeys and Crossroads
I’m finding a theme to this summer. Journey. The topic has come up in multiple ways. First was my own journey. Dave and I spent a week in...

Spiritual Brokenness
Perhaps you have seen or heard the question: Why is it when a Muslim shoots someone they are called a terrorist; when a Black person...


Among the trees
A few weeks ago four trees were cut down on the campus where I live, two of them in our backyard. It’s a good thing, as a couple of them...
God is Love
On the PBS Newshour two weeks ago there was a story about a woman, Sabina Khatri, who is the founder of a school in Karachi, Pakistan....


Solid Ground
I soooo want the Cleveland Cavaliers to win the NBA finals. I try not to care; I really do. After they blew the last shot of the first...


Amazing Stories
Five of us attended the Delaware-Maryland Synod Assembly (church council meeting for Lutheran churches in Delaware and Maryland) at the...


Come Holy Spirit
Sunday, while the country celebrated Memorial Day weekend -- some by remembering those who died in war and some with barbecues and trips...