Northern Crossings

The Big Change,” an article in Lutheran Education Vo1.93 (February 1957), shows what vast changes had come over the world in the previous 15 years: “8,000 more people a day in the United States; growth in our church...

The Minnesota North District LWML selected Christ’s Care for Children: Kenya as one of their Mission Grant projects for 2018-2020 in the amount of $10,800. Thanks be to God!       Share this on:...

I have cats, and I know the definition of “caterwauling”.  Everyday I wake up to caterwauling, not from my cats, but from the unrelenting odium cast upon the President of the United States by the folks, generally,...

Back in the day before there were Smart phones and Twitter and all the communications devices  we have today the phone would ring at 3 o’clock in the morning and we would  stumble out of bed praying that nothing had happened to...

  Born in an Oak Savannah forest overlooking a treeless prairie, he picked choke, saskatoon, and pembina, but his favorite was June berry. He taught me about wild asparagus, and horseradish and onion and currant and how his...

Just recently a celebrity and movie star stood up at one of the endless parade of award shows where actors give them selves pats on the back and get to dress up and stand in front of cameras.  The actor used the stage to make a...

The news is replete with discussion of indictments, grand juries, lying to the Government, coverups and clandestine informants and “special” prosecutors.  Something is wrong with a system that allows congress to...

  So way at the bottom is the straight story from Military.com.  I will not comment on the state of respect for the flag today.  I will leave that up to the reader.  In the meantime put out your flags and read Johnny...

Some thought-provoking ideas have been brought to light by the suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain and the amazing life affirming and brave letter of Charles Krauthammer a Pulitzer Prize winning commentator, who found...

Boniface was successful in getting the pagans to come to Christ, although there were still pockets of resistance that would be taken care of by others.  He was successful and as bishop he gathered a large number of catechumens...

We have said that the recruiting, training, sending, support and return of missionaries is a monumental job and when a church body undertakes that task I does so under the Lordship of Christ whose mission it is.  More and more...

  When Jesus made the statement “Let not your hearts be troubled” in John 14, Luther says this is the most consoling sermon the Lord preached on earth. It is the sermon preached at many funerals and the...

Charlemagne’s Coronation So, when Winfred (Boniface) was born, the Moslems were in North Africa. Sixty years later they were stopped in their tracks by Charles Martel at Tours, just south of Paris. Remember Charles had...

Entering a monastery, Winfred, who later will become Boniface, was a distinguished scholar and his piety was beyond reproach.  He was a great student and became an even greater teacher.  The monastery where he was learning and...