This coming Sunday ends our “Done by Hope” annual focus year. It seems hard to believe that we started this church year off in the calendar year 2020. Over the past year we have engaged quite a bit in our hopes. The name “Done by Hope” came from a quote from Martin Luther. Luther said…

My three daughters have recently gotten into telling jokes – specifically “knock knock” jokes. It isn’t uncommon for them to say “knock knock” at dinner, have us say “who’s there?” and then respond with something…unintelligible. Same with the “why did the chicken…” jokes. There is something interesting about the knock knock joke. It gets you…

In March of 2020, just as the COVID pandemic was coming into our cultural realizations in the United States, Jeff Christopherson released a book with the odd title “Venal Dogmata”. Venal Dogmata is a short book, Christopherson even calls is a parable, about what might happen in the United States if the church were to…