This essay is a personal reflection on the decision made by the Vision Board on May 13 to permit same-sex marriages to be held at Grace and the new reality that we live in as a congregation in the wake of that decision. I must confess, up front, that I am still in...
Special thanks to Lord of Life in Ramsey for hosting the Assembly this year. Great job! These are the notes I took during some of the plenary sessions of the Assembly. I really valued the themes “Sent” and “Acts Now.” It’s just what we...
David Lose gave an excellent workshop at Luther Seminary’s Mid-Winter Convocation a couple weeks ago. The following is a brief synopsis of it. Lose observes that the older generation often asks this question: “Why don’t my kids (and grandkids) go to...
This is an illustration I did for Catechism last night. It was Part Two of a three-week series on the life of Jesus. I love the fact that I can be in the office at church, take out my iPad, open up ProCreate, do the illustration, upload it to Dropbox, then insert it...
This video, by Shimi Cohen, does an excellent job of visualizing what Sherry Turkle says in Alone Together. It explores how social media has substituted the false sense of connection for the true art of conversation. Well done, and thought...
I’m looking forward to engaging this new group in the Animate.Faith class at Sunday Evenings @ Grace. Here are the key questions we’ll discuss over the course of these eight weeks together: Is God Real? Can We Be Spiritual Without Being Religious? What is...
