A community gives you the energy to come out of your echo chamber or silo or isolation, or whatever image…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellNovember 14, 2024
It seems like more people I know and respect are stepping away from the pastorate – sometimes even stepping away…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellSeptember 3, 2024
Tangled, pungent, rumpled. A bit feral. Maybe antiquarian. Almost a little bit delightfully disgusting.
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellAugust 6, 2024
I remember when it was considered a good idea for churches to look and feel like shopping malls, a place…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellJuly 9, 2024
Not far from my home I encountered a phalanx of “Truth” yard signs along a busy street. Probably 12 to…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellJune 11, 2024
The revolution was just too. severe, radical, anti-church, and violent.
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellMay 14, 2024
We had to find or build or buy a new website in short order. And, as usual, we didn’t have…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellApril 30, 2024
Our beliefs about our dead family and friends are both tender and explosive. We don’t want them trifled with.
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellMarch 19, 2024
Pete was raised in smalltown Iowa by a Lutheran father and a Mennonite mother.
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellFebruary 20, 2024
