Northern Crossings

  Martin Luther was very concerned for the care of the poor and needy. He helped to set up the common chests which was used to help poor people in congregations get by in times of need and difficulty. Most of his...

  Back in the day before smart phones and messaging we had a wonderful example of the mutual conversation and consolation of the saints.  It was called the prayer chain and the way it worked was simple.  Someone got sick or...

  I have been reading a lot of Luther and a lot about Luther in the last few weeks.  Since it is his birth month (11/10/1483) and we are in that time of the church year that we wind down through days of warning and...

What you need to know about G.K. Chesterton is that he wrote a book called “The Everlasting Man”.  C.S. Lewis read it and became a Christian.  G.K. Chesterton wrote commentaries on all kinds of things back in the...

  So the New York Times that can’t report too much on real creepy stuff like Jeremy Epstein and his connection with the deep state, spend a lot of ink on a article about texts from the past that suddenly showed up on...

Dangers in the Garden   I have always said that rather than making fun of the book of Genesis people should read it with a open mind and realize that so many of the intractable problems we face are explained there.  Sexual...

I was looking at a bunch of epitaphs and blank funeral bulletins and then I saw a simple epitaph on face book – rest in peace, love you and miss you.  It was a simple response of a daughter to the death of her mom. It is...

  I have been spending some time trying to look at Luther’s oft sighted vituperation and nastiness.  I’m trying to figure out what it meant and why it happened and then ask the question, have the heirs of the...

I wrote this back in 2012.  Search for it if you want to.  It was entitled God’s math. The 10 Commandments are the moral Law and they get broken by thoughts desires, word and deeds. God seems to have put a lot of...

I have been joking for years about the fact that some of my shut ins, have redefined the definition of “shut in”. What I mean by that is that many times I go to visit a shut in and they’re not home. Many times, I’ve had to...

Just saw the news that the new struggle in our life is period relief or helping people get menstruation product free, and in the discussion we found out that men can menstruate as well.  Then we find out that a midwife in...

Luther was aware of the tenuous nature of life and also God’s control of all things.  He realized how quickly we could be translated into the Kingdom of Light.  As we remember our blessed dead we also remember...

  People who admire Luther have an issue that seems to pop up regularly in our life together today.  They love what Luther did but very often they didn’t like what he said.  He was mean and vicious, vulgar and nasty. ...