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Some Days Are Just Lonelier than Others

A few years ago at one of the Evangelical Lutheran [...]

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Almost Home

As I make the turn into our neighborhood at the end of a long day, my two [...]

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I Use a Powerful Antiperspirant But I Still Sweat A Lot

After working this past semester [...]

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Preaching in the Wake of Lost

After six years of shocking turns, mysterious symbols, and powerful [...]

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Why I Don’t Always Preach the Expected Way

My daughter was part of a madrigal group in high [...]

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Images of God

In my neighborhood book club, which I adore because we’re such a sweet, quirky, yearning mixed bag [...]

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The Gospel Blast-Off

Actually, digging for nuggets of insight and tapping people on the shoulder (see last two columns) are [...]

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The Gospel According to Ebert and the Homiletical Voice

When I hear someone complain [...]

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Mining Gold

Last month I admitted, perhaps reluctantly, that sometimes the job of a sermon is nothing more than [...]

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Part Two: C*****anity: What if the Church Could Get Rid of Christ?”

It would certainly be easier, [...]