By Pastor John Hulden At our Minneapolis Area Synod Assembly this past weekend, the 500+ voting members elected a new bishop to begin serving in August. Good work y’all! We are church together. Full disclosure, I’m writing this before our synod assembly. Most of our synod staff have Monday off, after a busy synod assembly [...]
By Bob Hulteen Whew. I just got news that the American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation of the resolutions under consideration at Synod Assembly this weekend will arrive in time (barely) to publish them on the website today. The posted two-minute video recordings of each current bishop nominee are already interpreted in ASL and Spanish for [...]
By Nicholas Tangen Last week, as the temperature climbed into the 50s and the sun shone down across Northeast Minneapolis, a familiar thing happened. Neighbors up and down Pierce Street began poking their heads out their front doors, opening windows, and making their way outside to soak up the first fruits of the spring air. [...]
By Bishop Ann Svennungsen The signs were weight loss, shortness of breath, a cough. Given the symptoms, my husband, Bill, met with his doctor. She prescribed a battery of tests – looking for causes. Through a chest x-ray, a cat scan, and a biopsy, new signs were found: a 12- by 13-centimeter mass, malignant cells, [...]
By Pastor Wondimu Sonessa Life is sometimes like a pendulum. It swings back and forth between our past experiences and new encounters in our daily life. Once a force is exerted on it and sets the pendulum in motion, it continues to move back and forth with a constant time interval. Both friction and the [...]
By Pastor Craig Pederson Peter began to speak to [the people]: “I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. … All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his [...]
By Pastor John Hulden I got out voted. Again. First it was a golden retriever named Addey. All four of our kids, along with my wife Becky, used democracy to their advantage for a dog to enter our family home. It was fine. She was “a good dog” and very laid back. Then, after Addey [...]
By Manny Lewis In our quest for justice and order, we've implemented systems that, while intended to protect the community, can sometimes wreak havoc on the lives of the very individuals they are meant to serve. The cash bail system is a glaring example of such an unintended consequence, particularly for underprivileged families. In this [...]
By Nicholas Tangen Of soup and love, the first is best. – Spanish Proverb Lent is for me, the most wonderful time of the year. It’s the part of the church year where we don’t avoid the minor keys, where we face the reality of our own mortality and the power of the cross, and [...]
By Bishop Ann Svennungsen Ten days ago in Demsa, Nigeria, I joined eleven bishops for the laying on of hands, ordaining 72 new pastors to serve in the Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria (LCCN). It was a profound experience, made moreso by the 50,000 worshipers gathering with us in this outdoor setting. An ancient [...]
