Blog - Discipleship

Baseball is back, and season of Lent or not, that totally deserves a hallelujah.

Dear OMG blog readers,

Epiphany.

Some time in the last week or two I was listening to Minnesota Public Radio, and a story about “legacy letters” came on.

Luke 3:7-18

It happened when it was the furthest thing from my mind.

Sometimes, let’s just admit it, English isn’t quite as deft as one might like.

Here’s a word I hadn’t known before yesterday: Cleromancy.

A Reflection on James 2:1-17, 2nd Reading in the Revised Common Lectionary for the 16th Sunday after Pentecost, Sept. 9, 2018.

We are a people called and gathered and washed.

Dear OMG-ers,

Christians are suffering a crisis of the First Commandment: that’s the one that goes, “You shall have no other gods but me.”

I have a dear friend, up here in Two Harbors.

It seems to me reasonable to assume that if a person is, say, a Minnesota Twins fan, she doesn’t pull on Milwaukee Brewers gear for the Big Game.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born 112 years ago today on February 4, 1906.

We’ve all asked ourselves, when hearing of some moment of historical courage, “What would I have done?”

It’s 12:10 afternoon on January 1, and I just did a Twitter search for #NewYearsResolutions.

The below was written initially as a FB post this morning, but I’m compelled to post it as a blog.

This past Sunday, November 19th, I had the pleasure of preaching at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Grand Marais, MN.

Both before and after Charlottesville, I’ve been seeing all sorts of calls to respond to palpable hate with love.