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Yesterday was one of those odd collisions of events that can nearly be disorienting.  Starting Sunday afternoon and into Monday…

Historian and international relations theorist E.H. Carr famously defined history this way: “My first answer, therefore, to the question, What…

You’ve been exceeding gracious in reading (tolerating?) my reflections on what it means to do church, and be church, in…

The guiding question for my reading is this: how will our spirituality (and our churches) need to change in order…

Once a month I get to tell a Bible story to the little ones in our church while the adults…

I had a professor in seminary who was the first to reveal to me that sanitized picture of Martin Luther…

When my dear friend and frequent collaborator Jane Zwart recommends something, I listen. Particularly when it comes to poetry--because, as…

I’d never heard the phrase before -- “Crabs in a bucket.” Robert Leonard, affectionately known around here as “Dr. Bob,”…

It’s not every Sunday that a journalist from the New York Times visits your church. At least not the church…

It was a mixed shopping bag this week for Brian Cornell, chairman and CEO of Minneapolis-based retail giant Target. After…