Northern Crossings

This picture was taken from the roof of the Seminary/School/Mercy Center in Palmar Arriba in the Dominican Republic where a symposium and meeting of mission partners was held not long ago.  Mission work in Central and South...

One of my favorite writers was Richard John Neuhaus. He always had a marvelous turn of phrase that made you stop, go back, and re-read what he had written and come away intellectually challenged and eager to read more.  In one...

At the end of each Biennium the North Dakota District of the LWML seems to enter a period of light panic because the Mission Projects they had chosen are not quite paid for.  The mites come in but slowly it seems and so there is...

I wasn’t all a Twitter about the royal wedding like many were. I confess to watching some of it but basically doing other things. I was mildly interested in what the preacher would say being a bishop from the United States but I...

We tend to think of Pentecost in, for want of a better term, more lurid terms.  The mighty rushing wind and the tongues as of fire and the speaking in other languages and the truly other worldly images of that day are what come...

As I get older I find myself pondering the question of the necessity to pontificate on anything let alone on everything.  I suppose that the fact that I write a blog may be seen as evidence of where I have landed on the issue...

It starts out simply enough.  There is just a little scratch and tickle up somewhere in the sinus, uvula area and it is irritating but not debilitating.  You can gargle but that doesn’t help.  I remember my old Pastor...

  I wrote about the loss of a church up here in the North Country a while back and yesterday I received this picture of historic Trinity Lutheran in Milawaukee burning down.  It is an ugly sight and our prayers ascend for...

I wrote this almost a year ago.  My frustration level rose again when I listened to the talking heads blither on about the “peace process” which is a joke.  70 years we have talked about the peace process and there...

I am listening to the speeches concerning the dedication of the American Embassy in Israel and it is interesting and inspiring.  Politically it makes sense and it sends a definite message to the world that the US really does...

My grandmother had the brightest wash the neighbors all would say,when she hung her sheets on a wire line in the breeze of a summers day. From the edge of town they looked to me as they flapped and snapped at the fold, like...

There is “a problem of God” for society. We see it all over and the small issue that we have been discussing over the display of a motto, “in God we trust” is a small slice of a much bigger pie. God...

This is, of course, a visual representation of irony.  It can be pretty ironical sometimes. Here is a message that John Marty tweeted over the issue we discussed on this blog about the “in God we trust” controversy...

Memo from the Wolf Pack Bishop Kispan (of ELCK central diocese) with children escort us through a Maasai village nearby the Project 24 Lenkishon boarding facility.         Share this on:...