Pastoral Meanderings

When I was a child, my maternal grandmother would often play the gospel hymn "His Eye Is on the Sparrow" and sing along as she pla...

It is routine for Pastors to get phone calls from their people in time of trouble or difficulty.  Most of the time these phone calls do not ...

                                                                                       I presided at a wedding recently.  The groom was the ...

Working in an elementary school (K-6th grade), an acquaintance of mine reported dealing with the following issues: a girl drunk in the restr...

One of the lessons learned from our age in which video games are so prominent is that when you die, you press restart and everything starts ...

The most recent issue of The Lutheran Forum magazine (as opposed to the Forum Letter) has a very interesting article by church historian Ma...

More than 30 years ago, the Rev. Ronald F. Fink went out into the woods surrounding Resurrection Lutheran Church on the hunt for something. ...

Ooh, that's why I'm easy... I'm easy like Sunday morning...  That's why I'm easy... I'm easy like Sunday morning... ...

One of the justifications for making change is the appeal to the prophetic moment, when the Church hears the Word of the Lord and does a ...

Listening in to some of the conversations in the Church over what happens in worship, who communes at the Lord's Table, and how much div...

The old joke says "The good news is Jesus is coming back.  The bad news is that He's really angry."  Why is it that we are so...

Well, its Sunday morning and soon the building will be filled with people wasting their time -- royally.  And how wonderful it is!  A few da...

Although I am not going to use this to work through the tome by this title written by St. John of the Cross, I nominate the title as one of ...

It is kind of interesting to see how the contrasting images of the Church play out among Christian people today.  If you tuned into the LCMS...

Busy is chic; being busy is “in”.  How many times don’t we hear today, “I just don’t have the time to.....?”  We are time-starved.  Young, o...

Sermon preached for Advent 2, on Sunday, December 5, 2010.     Scripture is rich with images – especially contrasting ones.  In this way ...

“My main reasons for making the [Tridentine] form more available,” Pope Benedict explains, “was to preserve the internal continuity of Churc...

I live in a community in which the predominate flavor of Christianity is Baptist, Nazarene, or Church of Christ.  There are a few other choi...

Video is down at Vimeo... try this link FEED YOUR FLOCK It is a funny and great commercial, so bad on so many levels, and yet I find mysel...

Being the Anglophile that I am, one of my favorite TV shows is the old BBC series about a fictional department store (Grace's) and the c...