Thank you for your recent letter to the clergy and other rostered ministers in our Synod, asking us to consider “following Jesus” as our highest vocational priority. Your laudable pastoral letter set me thinking. How do we follow Jesus theseRead More →
My grandchildren believe that I sometimes say weird things. I suppose that some who have heard me preach over the years have believed likewise. Try this on for size: don’t hold the fort. That was the main thought in myRead More →
In what respect, if at all or perhaps thoroughly, is America today becoming Amerika? My understanding of that word is my own, although Franz Kafka’s now famous use of it is in the back of my mind. In college, IRead More →
Remember the good old days when you didn’t have to lock your doors? When kids could just run outside to play and their parents didn’t have to worry? Those were the days – or maybe not. A Columbia University researcher,Read More →
My wife, Laurel, and I recently celebrated our 56th (I think it was) anniversary. Our children and grandchildren, thankfully, made it possible for us to do it. The event gave me occasion to revisit, in my own mind, a conversationRead More →
A dear friend of mine, a congenital Christian activist, Dave Gagne, now of Minneapolis, who has long been a keen observer of American church life as well as of American life in general, happened to see some statistics about theRead More →