It’s been far too long since I posted here and I have been eager to add more posts regularly but life has prevented that.  My last post followed Mothers Day and mentioned a young woman who had been in the youth group I led up near Chicago.  She had been diagnosed with inoperable tumors which…

Rather than fight the crazy crowds of dining out on Mothers Day, I took my bride on a date night Saturday evening. Only one of our offspring was going to be home for Mother’s Day anyway. We had a romantic evening that started with dinner at a local Italian eatery .  At the end of…

I ran across what I thought was the most gracious and insightful blog post about a film previously mentioned. When we uncritically accept a caricature of someone, we become less gracious people. Instead, we become more dismissive, presumptuous, and defensive. We also become more likely to misinterpret an honest challenge to our faith as an…

It’s always tempting to weigh in on movies that one has not seen, especially after reading some very interesting reviews. At least this is true for me.  Usually I refrain and push my mind to think about more important subjects. We find ourselves in a very strange place as Christians in America at this time…

I’ve found the folks at Lutheran Satire can really crack me up.  Some of their videos are hilarious (the St Patrick’s video looks at bad trinitarian analogies thru very clever humor). This one relates to the question of what we are doing to make church more accessible to younger generations. Enjoy!

Years ago we ran a retreat called HappeningTM which was common in Episcopal Diocese’s all over the country back in the day.  The Weekend was intended to be a renewal weekend patterned after Cursillo. What I watched in the final years that we did this was rather unspectacular. There were student testimonies at the end…

Thirty some years ago there seemed to be many made for TV movies about a teen or young adult who ran off and got involved in a cult. In each story, they had to somehow be rescued from that group. The difficulty in doing that is the power of the emotional bonds and irrationality caused…