Collecting My Thoughts

Today I learned it is very difficult to scowl wearing a mask and have people get your message. The church I attend is still closed, so when ...

The church is proving what the non-churched have said for years. We're invisible, irrelevant and unnecessary. Time to change that. Time ...

Our Sunday School class today had the opportunity to hear Rev. Jordan Long, President of the Lutheran Church of South Sudan, and to hear abo...

IF you attend a liberal, mainline church (can be either Catholic or Protestant) you'll hear about BDS (boycott-divestment-sanctions) as ...

The recent battle in ELCA was supposed to be about ordained ELCA gay pastors being released from the celibacy vow. The 2009 vote to OK ...

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has been sparing over its sexuality statement for 20 years (1989 the task force was formed...

When the word "HOPE" means something Yesterday I came across the web page for Hope Lutheran Church in Aurora, Colorado, an evangel...

She didn't die without a verb You may recall (or not) I've written a poem about the obituaries--and how sad it is that some die wit...

Digging for the pony In a former life when I was a Democrat I wrote a few speeches for a member of the governor's cabinet. I know how t...

Taking a breather I've just been stumbling my way through the ELCA Task Force on Sexuality draft statement. We were told that this re...

How Google can help clean your bathroom The Internet isn't a library, but like library stacks, it can be a lot of fun to browse. Ten or...

Two out of three isn't bad Yesterday I had lunch with a home-schooled eleven year old. After our Advent services at church we serve lu...