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Jun 8, 20234 min read
It's either hope or nothing
To be quite honest, this wildfire smoke this week has really thrown me off. I lived in Berkeley California through the worst of the...
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May 30, 20232 min read
Pentecost in the specifics
This weekend the Church celebrated the day of Pentecost, and at The House we celebrated by having church in our backyard for the first...
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Apr 3, 20235 min read
Would you rather have a conversation or an enemy
I don't know what the experience is of the ELCA writ large or of Christ Lutheran in specific, but there is a stereotype among...
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Mar 22, 20236 min read
Top line, bottom line
Back in my previous church in California, during an adult confirmation class, we set up an instructed Eucharist service -- which if...
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Mar 10, 20235 min read
My People, God's People
In seminary, I read a book from the 1960s by an Episcopal priest named Gibson Winter, wherein among the many things he says, he says that...
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Mar 7, 20232 min read
Church is a Work of Imagination
Written for Christ Lutheran Church's weekly newsletter, March 7, 2023. Over the weekend, one of the churches that supports our...
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Nov 10, 20225 min read
The problem of other people
I sat down at my laptop and thought for a while about whether I should try to write my children's sermon first or my pulpit sermon, and I...
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Aug 20, 20227 min read
Sermon | There are six days on which work ought to be done
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....
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Jul 25, 20222 min read
Puzzle Pieces
It's fun work to be a young adult missioner, because the young adult mission is simple: build something fun and relational and faithful...
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Feb 4, 20224 min read
From now on, you'll be fishing for people
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...
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Nov 19, 20217 min read
Christ the King, Caesar the Final Boss
I’m going to show my hand here a little bit and say that I play a lot of video games—I have always played a lot of video games, and I...
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Oct 20, 20214 min read
Waiting & Watching - An invitation to Advent Devotional 2021
We are happy to invite contributions for our 2021 Advent Daily Devotional on the theme of Waiting & Watching from the members of our four...
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