St. Stephen's Lutheran Church

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...