Today we heard two stories about callings. The first reading was about Jonah. The second was the story about the calling of the first...

One Saturday morning when I was 8 years old, my dad called from down the hallway, “Julie, come here!” I came out of my room. “Listen!” ...

0 One week in August 2017, I came home from Pennsylvania for my uncle’s funeral. It was the end of his earthly journey, but also a new...

About five years ago, my family vacationed near the Grand Canyon. We happened to be there at the same time as a national convention of...

This morning we celebrate the visitation of the angel Gabriel to Mary. In this time before Christmas we see a prime example from Mary of...

Today’s sermon begins with a children’s book about a legend of St. Nicolas. Sometimes the simplest message is the most profound. The...

Children's Sermon - 11/29/2020 What is the worst place to be waiting? A stop light? The grocery check out? Covid testing? Here is my...

This is a picture of me when I was 5 with our family pet goat, Bell. I still remember the day we got her. My dad took my brother and me...

“Encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing.” When Ann was in early high school, Ms Jones invited her to be...

I remember when I was in high school one snowy morning. I woke up to find school was canceled, so I went back to sleep. My brother was...

When I took a break from ministry to stay home to raise my small children, I met my friend Maris. She was a transplant to the area like I...

When Martin Luther was a young monk he was obsessive about not sinning. He took the saying “fear of God” to a whole ’nother level. He...

When I was 6, I was thrown out of my own birthday party. We had been playing pin the tail on the donkey, and I lost. I don’t really...

This spring I had the chance to listen in on a conversation of 2020 graduates of my alma mater, Oberlin College. It was part of their...

Six years ago I did my internship at a church in Denver Colorado. My brother flew out to Minnesota from Connecticut and together we...

Imagine there were two mayors of nearby towns in the Old West. Let’s call them Dodge City and Mayberry. There were a lot of Christian...

Matthew was a tax collector. He was Jew working for Rome, collecting hard earned income from people with meager resources For the...

Today is Rally Day, the traditional kickoff to the Sunday School year. It’s different this year. A lot of things are different this...

My first year in college I had a roommate named Jamie. It was a real coincidence that she was assigned to be my roommate, because we had...

On an episode of Seinfeld called “The Opposite” George Costanza starts the episode so discouraged with life that he decides from now on...