--------------------------- By Eric Metaxas and Roberto Rivera, April 5, 2017 blog at www.breakpoint.org Religion is good for you: emotionally, physically, and economically. Who knew? Not the secularists. In…
By Fred Craddock (1928-2015), Craddock Stories, ed. by Mike Graves and Richard F. Ward, 2001, Chalice Press, pages 132. ------------------------------ The young woman, twenty-eight years old, at St. Mark's…
Temperatures in the upper 70's these last few days have Minnesotans thinking about summer, even though it is still mid-April. The first warm days of Spring have people…
"Fragile Worshipers" by Richard Beck, at: www.experimentaltheology.blogspot.com; posted March 7, 2016 ---------------------------- I used to be a fragile worshiper. I'd go to church and there would…
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990) was a British reporter in the U.S.S.R. in the 1930's. Here he describes two episodes which provide contrasting insights into life after the Russian Revolution. Muggeridge…
I remember the excitement of watching our children, and then our grandchildren, learn to walk. It’s great to watch the little ones take those first few steps. But…
By Rev. David Lose, Professor of Preaching at Luther Seminary, St.Paul, Minnesota; posted 10-23-2009 at: www.workingpreacher.org The following letter was posted on a website designed to assist in the weekly…
“There are no atheists in the foxholes... You’ll never be able to keep religion out of the schools-- as long as there are tests, there will be prayers…
The father of a man in my previous parish had immigrated to America from Russia in the early 1900’s. After the Russian Revolution his father lost contact…
(…continued…) With all that in mind, think again about what was in part one about how relationships die from lack of communication. Much has been said about whether…