Pastoral Meanderings

Laughter is a good thing.  God gave laughter to us.  We ought to encourage more holy laughter (the kind in which we are not tearing down s...

From D. G. Hart: Worship services themselves made modest accommodations to the American world. English services were introduced alongsi...

I will admit that once I dreamed of being famous.  I had a grand plan of which the parish was but a stepping stone.  I was going to get my...

I know it is old news that SCOTUS upheld the Affordable Care Act (Obama Care).  I am not about to argue the politics of it all here but up...

Sermon for Pentecost 16, Proper 19B, preached on Sunday, September 13, 2015.     The past weeks we have heard Jesus renew the call to fa...

All it takes is a boy choir dressed in cotta with ruff (the ruffled white collars), a great choir in the large, reverberant building, a wond...

The Word of the Lord does not only endure forever but is relevant to every age and time.  Its timeless message of a changeless Christ for ...

Everyone has heard words like these.  The new person in the family, at the job, in the church, etc...  Pastor's hear those words when ...

Have you ever learned something you always knew?  I love when that happens.  When the gut or instinctive reaction to something proves to b...

Sermon for Pentecost 15, Proper 18B, preached at Grace Lutheran Church on Sunday, September 6, 2015, by the Rev. Daniel Ulrich, Associate ...

Only a stranger to religion in America would deny the fact that the fervor of modern evangelical Christianity is about quality of life.  E...

Sermon preached for Pentecost 15, Proper 18B, at Golgotha Lutheran Church, Wausa, Nebraska, on Sunday, September 6, 2015.     Garrison ...

You know the litany of complaints.  Lutherans are not welcoming to visitors.  Lutherans do not know how to share their faith.  Lutherans are...

We have put it so many ways.  My own particular favorites include Neuhaus'Law ("Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will soone...

We have been presented with any number of things that are now perfectly legal but still immoral.  There are those who throw up their hands...

One of the great dangers for Christianity today is that Christians have begun to speak inside the Church with the same vocabulary as those...

It has become the buzzword.  Got no signal for your smart phone?  First world problem!  Got no organic, free range eggs for your egg white...

There is a dog who lives at my house and this dog has ADHD.  He pays attention to you until something moves.  If you are outside and a squ...

Prior to Vatican II, it was common thinking among any and all involved in liturgical renewal that the people in the pew were too distant f...