Heaven & Hell
“Hell-oween:” Scaring the Hell out of People
Monday, October 31st, 2011Last week, I got this query: Hello Anna, As I walked to work this morning I saw posters for a “Hell-oween” event…I called the number on the poster and learned that it is going to be a haunted house similar to “Hell House” which highlights “real-life” terror such as abortion, suicide, homosexuality, etc. I am concerned, and frustrated. You [...]
Can Grace Really Be Pulled out of the Fire? Scary Matthew 13.
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011Anna- curious of your understanding of Matthew 13:36-43. Is this really telling of a one time judgement and not an eternal one? I was thinking of our conversation at Outlaw Ranch this past week. It sounds pretty eternal to me. Dang. There’s always gotta be one in the crowd who listens and then in their [...]
“Rarely, will anyone die for a righteous person.” The Impracticality of Jesus’ Death
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011The problem I see every day amongst Christians is the inability to find a more practical explanation to those of us who don’t quite understand the meaning of giving up your only son to save a bunch of sinners. Why would anyone do that? And worse: no matter what kind of crook you’ve been your [...]
Crazy
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011Well, if you can read this, you too have not been raptured. Turns out, nobody has. Or at least, no one whom anybody has noticed is gone missing. Which you have to grant would be discouraging even in absentia. To some, this threatened doomsday of May 21 might be old news. But I’m still thinking it’s [...]
Of a Bridge and a Bell and Ashes Above Your Eyes
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011My daughter Else and I have settled in these last several nights to read Bridge to Terabithia. We’re approaching the end of the tale, and knowing what will happen in just a few page flips, I have my kleenex box at the ready. Last night, we read the chapter “Easter.” Leslie, the doomed girl who [...]
Rabbit Rabbit
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011Two days ago I learned that my friend Ellie committed suicide. I am very sad. Ellie was the secretary in the foreign language department at St. Olaf College, where I went to school. For some reason or another the work study gods smiled down on my blonde head instead of all the others on the [...]
“Saving” Politics
Monday, October 25th, 2010The only time I get to see Jon Stewart is on youtube clips. I save my ironing for Masterpiece Mystery on Sunday nights, and my laundry folding for PBSkids’ Ruff Ruffman after school. (Side note: Did you happen to catch Sherlock Holmes last night? Almost makes me hope that Jesus won’t come before the series [...]
Hunches, hopes, hints about grace
Thursday, July 29th, 2010Question: If we are saved by God’s grace and yet we continue to turn our back on God, i.e., we don’t practice our faith, we don’t pray, we don’t read God’s word, we continue to repeat the same sins over and over, etc. if we die are we saved or did we fall short of [...]
