Lutherans Restoring Creation

purple, pink, blue flowers in a garden with a low stone wall in front, concrete planter with geraniums, wooden fence behind even more white pink purple flowers, small ceramic statuette on the right side, American flag in the distance near some trees.

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 →

old white man in blue jeans and a long sleeved white shirt and baseball cap, swinging a scythe at flowering buckwheat

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 →