Each year on the Sunday closest to August 15th I plan to preach a sermon that talks about Mary, the mother of Jesus. Now, that may seem just fine to some and strange to others. Most Lutherans have never concerned themselves very much with Mary, just like most of Protestant Christianity. I will admit that…
Sunday was the last day for our Project Connect Summer Intern. How has it been being a mini internship supervisor? (that is to say ‘mini’ internship not ‘mini’ supervisor) Well, she didn’t run screaming from the church at any point and I’m assuming that is a good thing. Will she become a pastor? Who knows?…
Pentecost 7A – Isaiah 55:1-5, Psalm 145:8-9,14-12, Matthew 14:13-21 Several years ago, I took a class on Christian Spirituality. We studied lots of different spiritual disciplines in which Christians have engaged for centuries, one of which was fasting. I will confess my own lack of understanding of the discipline, although I can now appreciate its place…
At midnight last night/this morning I saw the last and final movie in the Harry Potter series. Don’t judge me. Actually, on second thought, judge me all you want. I don’t care. It is a fine story, fairly well made movie series and it has some fantastic British actors in it, not the least of…
…with his American Express Platinum card. Yeah, right. This week, a friend of mine was talking about something she saw on a couple of her friends’ statuses [on our favorite social network site]. The first was a person thanking God for her child who had suffered a significant health crisis and although she was not…
Shepherdess Writes 