Friday 09 April 2021
Over the past few months, our church, St. Anthony Park Lutheran, has been addressing the topic of ambiguous loss. We have had an online series of speakers to address this…
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When the shutdown here in Minnesota happened last March and everyone was asked to stay home, I remember feeling anxious and worried. Our pastoral team decided, as we shut down…
Read PostTuesday 09 March 2021
Literature is a gift from God that engages us in perspectives and stories beyond our own, engaging all of our senses and emotions. As the great literary artist F. Scott Fitzgerald…
Read PostThursday 25 February 2021
Like everyone, this fall was by far the most bizarre and tragic and challenging of my years in ministry. It also might have been the most biblical. One of…
Read PostSunday 12 July 2020
Each year, the Saint Paul Area Synod provides financial support for a variety of synod partnership ministries. One of those is Lutheran Campus Ministry – Twin Cities, which serves students…
Read PostSunday 14 June 2020
The Rev. Justin Grimm originally published this message on July 11, 2016, on his personal blog following the death of Philando Castile. He shared it again publicly last week on…
Read PostFriday 06 March 2020
2020 First Call Theological Education Retreat The ELCA requires all rostered ministers to participate in First Call Theological Education (FCTE) during their first three years of public ministry. It is…
Read PostTuesday 26 November 2019
Can you imagine being in a foreign land, desperately seeking a place of refuge and safety, determined to find a new home in which to live and work to support…
Read PostFriday 08 November 2019
In April of 2016, John Schwehn was called to serve as the Associate Pastor of Christ the King in New Brighton, a large suburban church with a wide array of…
Read PostFriday 25 October 2019
The Anuak are a small ethnic minority in the Upper Nile region of Africa, concentrated mostly in Ethiopia and South Sudan. After genocide broke out in the early 2000s, the…
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