This past Sunday was the end of our 500 year Reformation celebration Annual Focus, “What does this mean?” This coming Sunday, we’re going to be starting a new Annual Focus, “We are the Body”. Last year we prepared ourselves by immersing ourselves in Lutheran theological concepts. This year, we’re going to look at how those…

Thanksgiving! As the father of a three year old, yesterday I was watching the PBS show “Daniel Tiger”. Daniel Tiger is a spin off of the old Mister Roger’s Neighborhood, in which Daniel Tiger of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe has his own show. In this episode, Daniel Tiger and his family celebrated “Thank You Day”…

Yesterday I went to the doctor. It was nothing serious, just a check up. I walked in, the nurse had me step on the scale, checked by height, took me back to the examination room, took my temperature, my pulse, and my blood pressure. It was a check.  This past Sunday we confessed a part…

Yesterday I went to the doctor. It was nothing serious, just a check up. I walked in, the nurse had me step on the scale, checked by height, took me back to the examination room, took my temperature, my pulse, and my blood pressure. It was a check.  This past Sunday we confessed a part…

There are a lot of things in Latino culture that I, a white kid raised in Asia, don’t get. But one of the things that I DO get is the Latino celebration of “Dia de los Muertos” – the Day of the Dead. This past week we confessed  part of the addendum to the Small…

A Lutheran pastor, an Episcopalian priest, and a Roman Catholic brother sit around and have a beer. It’s not the opening line of a joke, it’s what happened on October 31st on the couches of University Lutheran. Others were invited, and we even would have invited the Baptist guy had he been there – but…