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A conversation for Lent

By Bishop Ann Svennungsen My father liked to hunt pheasant in Montana. My son-in-law grew up hunting deer in northern Minnesota. Though I can’t imagine shooting a gun, I can imagine the suspense and even excitement of waiting in the bushes for a bird to come into view. And I am well aware that the [...]

I like you just the way you are

By Pastor Deb Stehlin Yesterday, a friend and I went to see the In the Heart of the Beast Puppet Theater production of “Make Believe Neighborhood.” It’s a masterful mash-up of the story of the radical Christian, Mr. Rogers, with vignettes of people who are making the Phillips neighborhood more, well, neighborly. That includes Pastors [...]

When the dead stump flowers

By Bishop Ann Svennungsen  “The mark of ashes is one of the few honest words in a culture of illusion.” So began an Ash Wednesday sermon I preached in the early 1990s. Perhaps, the words are even more pertinent today. We hear about fact checking, truth-o-meters, fake news. Well, this week we enter a season [...]

2023-02-26T21:22:49-06:00February 13th, 2018|Categories: From the Bishop|Tags: , , , , , , |

No More Politics in the Pulpit, … Perhaps

By Bob Hulteen My funny bone praises God for the dry (and sometimes not-so-dry) humor provided by The Onion, a news source that has its fingers on the pulse of American culture. Staff writers take dry news stories and bring them to life, much like the Valley of the Dry Bones. As a comic book [...]

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By Bishop Ann Svennungsen A few weeks ago, I was humbled to preach at the funeral of Erik Flom, the 25 year-old-son of Pastor Matt and Nora Flom. In learning more about his life, I found this story from a classmate. She wrote, “Erik was an indescribably magnetic person. People practically orbited around him. He [...]

2023-02-26T21:22:50-06:00January 30th, 2018|Categories: From the Bishop|Tags: , , , , , |

Linked with Our Muslim Neighbors

By Rev. Craig Pederson I have a LinkedIn account, as many people do. I can’t remember when and why I set it up, but there must have been an invitation of some kind, or an article I wanted to read, that required me to set up a user profile. Now, I’ve given LinkedIn enough information [...]

2023-02-26T21:22:50-06:00January 20th, 2018|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , |

A Moral Example

By Bishop Ann Svennungsen “It was during a time of personal prayer and fasting that I received the news I would play the part of King in the movie Selma,” David Oyelowo told the crowd gathered for the Annual Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast. It seemed to him that God had called him for this [...]

2023-02-26T21:22:50-06:00January 15th, 2018|Categories: From the Bishop|Tags: , , , , |

A Teachable Moment

A colleague stirred her coffee and mused, “I wonder how the new tax law will impact how my people give to the church next year?” She is curious, because the standard deduction has roughly doubled for all filers. (Important resources are available to explain the impact of this tax change.) It’s expected that fewer people [...]

2023-02-26T21:22:51-06:00January 8th, 2018|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , |

Enough with the Waiting

By Emilie Bouvier Okay, so I love waiting, I really do. There’s something about the practice and ritual of waiting that feeds the soul. But I’m also really anxious to dig into the reality that were all waiting for – the incarnation, God born among us. So, I’m going to skip ahead a little and [...]

Prepare Ye the Way of Justice

By Bob Hulteen “Wait. Just wait.” The luminous blaze bouncing off the shiny red ornaments on a Christmas tree adorned with spray-can snow was too enticing. Homemade bows encircled the boxes adorned in green, red, and yellow, filling the space under the tree. I longed to "free" the treasures that awaited by a slow, methodical [...]

2023-02-26T21:22:52-06:00December 12th, 2017|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , |
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