Northern Crossings

Following his inauguration as the nation’s first president, in 1789, George Washington walked up Broadway to St. Paul’s for the service, attended by his wife, as well as both houses of Congress. The inauguration took place at...

Today is the recognition day for Philemon and Onesimus who are to be for us examples of reconciliation.  I don’t need to go through the story of these two – you can read about it in one of Paul’s shortest...

  Interesting things happen, at least to me, when I pull on the threads of what seems to be coincidence. We had a Bible study on the woman who anointed Jesus feet with a costly perfume.  All through the Bible study I kept...

This doesn’t look like a big deal but if you get a million of them together there could be exciting times.  My friend John Kissinger, the Project manager for Project 24 was up at Wamba as I mentioned before and the locusts...

The picture was taken by my friend Kissinger, the project manager for Project 24 in Kenya.  He was visitng a project 24 site in Wamba where I visited many years ago.  We were a team of six who went there, and had the great...

So the folks that can heal the climate, give everyone free schooling and health care, and make everything fair because they are smarter than the rest of us have proven once again that they have problems counting, using a...

I have been reporting about convention reports for a while now because I think there is a lesson to be learned about politics and religion and vice versa.  We want to separate the two we say, and I am trying to make the point...

“The maintenance and advancement of the unity of the pure confession, and common defense against separatism and sectarianism” is the reason we have a Synod.  It is the reason that congregations form together and make up a...

I have been holding off on this for a while, but after getting up this morning and seeing the absolute debacle going on in Iowa I had to go with this blog.  I wanted to reprise the “One Thing You Have to Do” blog...

    After all the silly things of the weekend, it is time we got some interesting news bits that we can sink our teeth into.  Worries about chunks of clothing falling off of the Super Bowl half time entertainment...

Joy Patterson My wife is from Wausau WI and we have spent some time there.  Her mother is still there and as we get older we realize it is getting harder to visit especially in the winter.  There are many people that I have met...

  In the long lead up to the Super Bowl there is usually a point where there aren’t a lot of things to talk about or to analyze as far as the big game is concerned.  At some point we reach the understanding that the...

What is scary about the flu is that the Chinese had to lock down and isolate something like 18 million people.  What is scarier is that the Chinese government can lock down and isolate 18 million people.  A country that cannot...

Picture quality is not the greatest but ……….. Everything I read says that they should not be here at all.  They look like mourning doves but they are bigger and they have a collar on the back of their neck.  I...