Musings on Faith, Culture and ADHD
Genesis 21:1-8 and 22:1-14 Fifthteenth Sunday of Pentecost A New Thing Series First Christian Church Mahtomedi, MN Listen to the sermon. When I was in college, I read the comics daily. One of the comics that I loved to follow was the Far Side, a one panel comic that ran from 1980 to 1995. What... Continue Reading →
The following was preached in 2015. Mark 7:24-37 Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost September 5, 2015 First Christian Church Mahtomedi, MN Listen to the sermon. When I was in high school I was cross country for two years. I enjoyed running, but I wasn’t the fastest guy in the world. I was less a gazelle than... Continue Reading →
Acts 2:37-42 Tenth Sunday After Pentecost Sacraments Series August 13, 2017 First Christian Church Mahtomedi, MN Listen to the sermon here. Good science fiction should be able to talk about a present issue dressed in futuristic garb. Star Trek has been able to do that for most of its 50 years of existence. There is... Continue Reading →
I don't know when it happened, but I've become a walking, talking shibboleth. A shibboleth is a word or custom that signifies who is in the ingroup and who is in the outgroup. Think of it as an old fashioned version of virtue signaling. Now, I didn't personally become a shibboleth, but the fact that... Continue Reading →
One of the ironic things about me is that two of my favorite holidays are civil and not religious: Independence Day and Thanksgiving. In the circles that I run in, those two holidays are also the most fraught because of America's ....complex history when it comes to the treatment of African Americans and Native Americans.... Continue Reading →
One of my favorite cartoons growing up was the 1975 television special based on Maurice Sendak's books with songs by Carole King. Really Rosie was the name of the special and the song that I remember the most is "Pierre, the Boy Who Doesn't Care." Pierre is a little boy that seems to go through... Continue Reading →
Galatians 1:13-17; 2:15-21 and Luke 18:9-14 Sixth Sunday of Easter Losing My Religion Sermon Series May 21, 2016 First Christian Church Mahtomedi, MN Click here to listen to the audio. It’s been about two years since our congregation voted to become an Open and Affirming congregation, meaning that we openly welcome Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and... Continue Reading →
How are Christians to act when it comes to public policy? How do we handle differences, deep differences? How do we remain in community? How do we show grace to each other? How do we witness to the wider world a different way of being?
I wrote an article about the demise of Kmart over at my Medium blog. I talk about its heyday and what has happened under Eddie Lampert who seems to be sucking Sears and Kmart dry. Here is a sample: Other news outlets, such as the New York Post report the same thing: Lampert is stripping... Continue Reading →
Luke 24:1-12 Easter Sunday April 16, 2017 First Christian Church Mahtomedi, MN Listen to the sermon. I think people have a hard time accepting Easter. People can get Good Friday. We can get that good people get executed by the State, by religious leaders. We’ve seen social reformers like Martin Luther King and Dietrich... Continue Reading →
The Clockwork Pastor 