It feels like one of the most special aspects of friendship when you start to take on the mannerisms and jokes and vocabulary of the...

It feels really important to me to name that this sentiment we sometimes hold that "old testament God is mean and different from nice God...

One of the most fun (and least expected) parts of being a pastor is hearing from someone about a topic that they would like to learn more...

Luke 17:11-19 On the way to Jerusalem Jesus was going through the region between Samaria and Galilee. As he entered a village, ten lepers...

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I have a really weird job. Not weird bad, weird great, but weird complicated. My role is many...

Why,,, would Jesus say this. Why. Like, why. I don't want to hate my family -- I quite like my family and it feels so opposite from what...

Sunday morning can be one of the loneliest places at church. If it's your first time, if you haven't been in ages, or if you just moved...

Well Christ Lutheran Church, somehow suddenly it is the start of another school year and frankly I have not a clue where the summer went....

It's fun work to be a young adult missioner, because the young adult mission is simple: build something fun and relational and faithful...

Something that I know about myself is that I am not really all that hardy of a person – I keep my AC set on 69 and if it squeaks up to 72...

Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? What a heart-breaking world we live in. What an absolutely gutting,...

For a chronology of our semester in the form of a picture gallery, scroll down just a little further! It feels like every time we get our...

It can be intimidating, as a new campus minister, to think about campus outreach. Where's the highest foot traffic place to table? Collar...

I remember being eight years old -- it was wild to be eight years old and think back on all the things you knew and didn't know -- well I...

Jesus says: "I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this...

Every priest as part of their preparation for ordination, has to complete a hospital chaplaincy internship -- ten or eleven weeks spent...

Every Wednesday evening at 8:30pm, without fail, after I close Zoom, I open the little Twitter app on my phone and I tweet: "not to be...

A few days ago, I recorded an episode of my podcast, Non-Working Title, with Pastor Chelsea from Micah Ecumenical Ministries. The podcast...

I think we take for granted just how different the shape of Jesus' ministry was from our own. He was itinerant, traveling from town to...

At the risk of being pedantic, sometimes it can be illuminating to ask some obvious questions, or at least questions that seem obvious....