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  • My mother's faith

    I like to think that I got my faith from my mother—but I doubt I have my mother’s faith. That became very clear to me last week. As you know, last week I was in Madison to help take care of my mother as she struggled w…

  • Pray for Rain!

    Here’s an incredible story about prayer from a good friend of mine, Rev. Dean Easton (Canedensis Moravian Church). Dean grew up in Iowa farm country and regularly went to a little country church. When he was 12 or 13, …

  • An Incredible Story!

    The most incredible, most fantastic, over-the-top, UN-believable thing happened to me today! How many times have you heard someone start off like that? It’s great, isn’t it? Some of my favorite stories have started ou…

  • NOT a goldfish!

    Many years ago, I preached a sermon that stuck in my family’s minds. They call it “the goldfish sermon,” and they remember it because I stood at the pulpit and made the very ridiculous statement “I am not a goldfish.” …

  • Moravians on PHC

    In case you weren’t glued to a radio last Saturday, here’s this year’s Christmas show for “A Prairie Home Companion,” broadcast from Bethlehem, PA last Saturday. The show features the music of The Bach Choir of Bethlehem…

  • Christmas Special--Special Christmas

    There was a time, not too long ago, when the Advent season was punctuated by Christmas specials that were really, really special. Some of them were animated; others were shot in claymation—and all of them were musicals …

  • Best care?

    My wife is no stranger to airline travel; in fact, she practically grew up on airplanes. Her stepmother was a flight attendant, and so Linda spent a lot of weekends “flying the friendly skies,” to spend time with her fa…

  • Giving with an open hand

    A friend of mine at seminary used to say that whenever he paraphrased events in the Gospel, it always sounds like a Reader’s Digest joke. This week’s lesson is certainly no exception! Ten lepers walk up to Jesus on the r…

  • Collared

    It’s just a little piece of plastic, but it seems to make a big, big difference in people’s minds. Yesterday, I wore a clerical collar for the first time, both in worship and out to lunch afterwards. I wore it as part o…

  • Getting personal This picture is from a photoset by Tom Stone and hosted on Flickr. I highly reccomend checking out these pictures. For me, Mr. Stone's depiction of people suffering from poverty is both compassionate and…

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