Diary of a Contemplative

I have started and re-started this post so many times. I wish there was an easy way to say this. I used to love the ELCA. But I don't an...

Chaplaincy is considered a Specialized Ministry in the ELCA . The normative "first call" ministry in the ELCA is parish ministry...

One of the things that I have been wrestling with lately is the question, "What is chaplaincy anyway?" As a discipline, it is no...

Haarlem, Netherlands.  A. Hanson, 2009. Yesterday was Reformation Sunday in the ELCA.  If you want a quick and dirty primer on what the ...

Credit Cokesbury.com Earlier this fall I responded to a call for people willing to review a new book, Queer Clergy  by R.W. Holmen, th...

The Sunday at Humble Walk Lutheran Church when we baked bread for our Eucharist during the service instead of singing. I am a part of th...

This is exactly what I feel so passionately about with regards to being/doing church.  How might we all be the missional church?   Cred...

A few years ago a church was expected to have a website in order to be seen as credible.  It could be relatively simple, just a place to pos...