A spell of ecojustice excitement is already rising in my heart. SunDay, September 21, is going to be a great day for the good olde U.S. of A! But my dear wife of more than sixty years has already toldRead More →
This global celebration began September 1st and will end October 4th, the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of ecology beloved by many of the world’s 2.2 billion Christians. This year the ecumenically promoted biblical textRead More →
The NY Times recently provided a pop-quiz to invite answers to this now familiar question (12/15/22). It cited a dozen oft-discussed eco-acts aimed to help with that shrinking, such as turning down the heat at night during the winter. WhichRead More →
Note: I’m repositioning these thoughts here both for card-carrying Christians and for some of my readers who don’t identify with the mission of the Christian Church or perhaps not with any particular faith tradition at all. For thoseRead More →
When you were sitting through your last graduation ceremony, your own or a child’s, say, as you were dutifully trying to listen to the commencement speaker, did your mind ever wander? Of course it did. More particularly, did youRead More →
Back in the day, when I served for a score of years as what we used to call an “urban minister,” I and my neighborhood pastoral partners sometimes used to muse: what makes an urban church urban? Best answer atRead More →
This is a question I’ve thought about a lot lately, because I’ve recently been reminded, by my daughter and one of her two daughters, that it’s much on the mind of younger generations these days. While those two key womenRead More →
In recent years, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, its theologians, its pastors, and many of its lay members have been preoccupied with a number of critically important questions, among them these. How are we, as church, to remainRead More →