Weekly Blog Posts
The following blog posts are written by Bishop Jen Nagel, Synod staff members, and leaders from the Minneapolis Area Synod.
Feather ruffling as a calling
By Brenda Blackhawk A few years ago, a friend and I were asked to lead the Palm Sunday service. We chose the readers, wrote the prayers, and – in lieu of a traditional sermon – [...]
No harm or danger
By Bishop Ann Svennungsen I have yet to meet a person who doesn’t want to reform our country’s immigration system. The question is how. In thinking about Lutheran teaching on immigration, I can almost hear [...]
Do you test positive?
By Pastor Craig Pederson I first saw the phrase on a billboard a couple of months ago: EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE. “Huh, maybe it will,” I thought. I felt better for a moment; it was [...]
The gift of daily bread
By Bishop Ann Svennungsen Are you still washing all your groceries before putting them away? Do you still set your mail aside a few days before you open it? It’s been more than five months [...]
Putting families first … with grace
By Meghan Olsen Biebighauser I don’t know what it’s like at your house, but in my house the kids are running wild. Frances, my seven-year- old, changes out of her PJs maybe every other [...]
A prophetic nonprofit
By Pastor John Hulden Bread for the World was in the news a few weeks ago. Florida Congressman Ted Yoho resigned from its Board of Directors after his very uncivil exchange with New York Congresswoman [...]
We are God’s people
By Rev. Dick Magnus Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. 1 Peter 2:10 I love [...]
From awakening into newness
By Eric Howard I was driving through a small town north of Tucson, Arizona, headed back to my college dorm room. I was making a turn in when I saw the police lights against the [...]
Taking Sunday morning to the street
By Pastor Kelly Chatman Since the beginning of the pandemic and death of George Floyd, the world seems to have shifted. The ways we gather and seek to walk in close relationship with God and [...]
Liberating the narthex
By Emilie Bouvier A photo in my phone from five weeks ago shows an empty can of Sprite and a wrapper sitting in the baptismal font at the front of the sanctuary at Holy Trinity. [...]