Pastoral Meanderings

Of all the things that confuse and confound me over the years, perhaps the greatest is the way we have made the sacred into something casual...

In what now seems a gazillion years ago, Nancy Reagan promoted a rather simple program to combat the use and the approval of using drugs.  ...

We live in the Golden Age of faithful and Biblical evangelical Lutheran resources.  It is an undeniable fact.  Whether you are talking books...

Within America's prominent religious scene, the pattern of worship seems to flow either out of the free worship more of the Pentecostal ...

There has been a sea change in the time I have been a pastor.  It was normal for a pastor to live in church owned housing 45 or 50 years ago...

On this eleventh day of the eleventh month when on the eleventh hour an armistice was declared, it is worth remembering that wars seldom pro...

There was a time when Minnesota seemed to be Luther land.  The immigration from Northern Europe brought boat upon boat of farmers to its fer...

The Rev. Charles Evanson was installed as Pastor of Redeemer Lutheran Church on Rudisill in Ft. Wayne in 1975 --  where he would serve for 2...

Everyone knows the ongoing debate about the order in which the Gospels were written, the theories about common source material, and the actu...

    For a very long time the issue of errors in the Bible has dogged Christianity and created a problem for those who hold a high view of th...

Words that once gave the coded announcement of the death of the Queen have become the words which acknowledge the death of what was once gre...

After years of equivocating and spreading a fog over the clarity of Scripture and tradition from Pope Francis, we have this from Pope Leo: “...

“The most striking phenomenon in the Roman text is the augmentation of the words of consecration said over the chalice.”  So wrote Josef Jun...

The gift of technology is, or perhaps could be, a tremendous blessing to the Church.  It may well be in some quarters but in many congregati...

It is a long tradition in Christianity that certain days were dedicated to intercession for selective groups of the dead. The foundation of ...

On this day when the attention of the Church is turned to those who died in the faith and for the faith, it occurs to me that there is a dif...

Those who would characterize the Reformation by the hammer and the theses nailed to a church door have a very small and distorted view of it...