St. Stephen's Lutheran Church

On Sunday morning on the way to St. Stephen’s, I listened to the end of Public Radio’s Krista Tippet’s “On Being” and heard Parker Palmer...

Even though I wrote to you last week about New Year’s resolutions, apparently some of the world has not read that devotional. I could see...

I’ve just started taking a very timely course on Jesus and the Bible in Islam at the seminary in Philadelphia. As you know, I’m on the...

Where he came from and who he was, he showed by what he taught and by the evidence of his life. He showed that he was the herald, the...

What an excruciating time of waiting these last Advent days before Christmas were as a child! Decorating, church, cookies, Santa’s...

I visited today someone who is dying from brain cancer. We read Psalm 27 and shared communion and she said, “Even out of bad situations,...

My sister called me the other night to ask what I and the three men in my life wanted for Christmas. It’s really so bizarre, isn’t it? ...

Thanksgiving Day A Happy Thanksgiving from St. Stephen’s! On this Thanksgiving Day, we celebrate the plenty of our land given by God’s...

Each week when the laundry was finished, it was my job as a boy to go through the enjoyable task of getting each load of the warm laundry...

It is going to drop to 9 degrees in St. Paul this week. I know that because now that my son is attending his first year of college there,...