Author: Rev. Bernie Seter

Carol Voecks was one of those people that slips into your life so quietly that when they slip out again you barely notice. At least for a while.  Their unassuming nature makes a statement in your life that is permanent. I met...

It started out as a the “State Institution for the Feebleminded”.  We can barely imagine a name like that in our politically correct day and age.  Then it became The Grafton State School for the Mentally Handicapped...

 This is the time of the year when I get a bit melancholy.  The change of seasons is bittersweet and as the plants and leaves change color and die it is impossible for me to not think of the those that have gone before us.  They...

  First let me say that the folks in the picture do not represent my view and certainly not the view of my church. I just listened to a commercial for the affordable care act that reminded me of the hour long commercials we...

Hermann Sasse said this 65 years ago. “What are Christians known for? Outsiders think our moralizing, our condemnations, and our attempts to draw boundaries around everything. Even if these standards are accurate and biblical,...