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Showing posts with label Lutheranism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lutheranism. Show all posts

An Open Letter to the New Presiding Bishop

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Last month, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), the denomination that I belong to, elected the Rev. Elizabeth Eaton to be o...

Review: "Pastrix" by Nadia Bolz-Weber

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I encountered the Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber when I started blogging at "Postings from Prairie Hill" about 6 years ago and she was wr...

The Secret of Ministry

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There is one fact of ministry that cannot be emphasized enough. We talk about the long hours pastors work, and the tendency for burnout. W...

The Best Advice Ever

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What do you say to someone who is thinking about seminary? How can you encourage someone who might be called to ordained ministry?  Ve...

(Clerical) Suit Up!

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The dog collar. The flea collar. Clerical collar. Roman collar. Tab Collar. Whatever you call it, the stiff white collar worn by many cl...

Thank You

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Given all the new people reading this little blog of mine, I feel like I should say something witty and clever. Now that you're here, I ...

Occupy Wittenberg?

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It started with one man, a pastor. Fed up with watching the poor in his community get taken advantage of so that those who were wealthy coul...

Reformation Day Sermon

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Preparing for Reformation Sunday this year, I happened across this: the first Reformation Sunday sermon that I preached. It is from Reformat...

Faithful Conversation

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On Sunday night, I was up late watching the news come in that US Special Forces had killed Osama Bin Laden. The next day, processing my reac...