2020 - April

  A grocery store manager spoke into the future about the best practices his store will do once we are clear to slowly and safely move past the pandemic. In mid-sentence, he said something we all understand: “lift the limits.” Interestingly, the lectionary scripture from this past Sunday does exactly…

  Online worship has become our way to experience church today. Okay, online worship is the only way to experience church today, and church is something so many of us truly, dearly miss. But hold on. Ask yourself, honestly, is online worship really so bad? I am sure most or…

“Don’t touch that dial!” That well-used sentence was familiar during my earliest years in front of a television set in the era when you actually had to go to the TV and turn the dial to get another station. Now “Don’t touch that dial!” has a whole new meaning. Beyond…

  Sacrilegious! Blasphemous! Audacious! To THINK that one could have Holy Communion—I mean HOLY Communion—without a priest or pastor physically present for the hands-on of it all, i.e., the blessing of the elements? And THIS high church blessing had better be done IN church. Anything else isn’t communion. After all,…

  Let the words from the prophet Zechariah reach you on this significant Palm Sunday, April 5th. In his ancient text nestled toward the end of the Old Testament, this postexilic minor prophet writes, “Look, your king is coming to you. He is righteous and victorious yet he is humble,…