I remember asking a little kid what he wanted to be when he grew up and getting a pretty surprising answer from the youngster. “I want to be wise,” he said. I chuckled a little and asked a follow up question, “So how are you going to get to be wise?” “I dunno,” the young…

This is the first week of Advent, which means that it’s a new Church Year, which means that it is time to announce our annual focus for the year! If you’re new to University Lutheran’s annual focus, it is a theme that we keep in mind throughout the year. This year’s focus is the first…

According to Jesus, everyone is your neighbor. That means that the person who lives next to you is your neighbor. The person at your job is your neighbor. That person online is your neighbor. The convenience store clerk? Your neighbor too. That person who lives on the island of Tuvalu, also your neighbor. Your enemy…

I was the only bartender in the bar that night and we had run out of limes. It was easy enough for me to tell the guys who were pounding the Coronas (so therefore the limes as well) that we had run out of limes, but that would mean that they would shuffle off to…

The French artist known only as “JR” is semi-famous for a self-portrait. The full title of the work is “Self-Portrait in a Woman’s Eye, Kenya, from 28 Milimetres, Women are Heroes , 2010”.  The portrait at first appears to be a close up of someone’s eye, but as you look closer, you find the reflection…

At the end of the 2005 movie, “Smoke” starring Harvey Keitel, he tells a story about chasing down a kid who was shoplifting in his store. The kid drops his wallet but gets away from Auggie (Keitel’s character). Auggie, then decided to take the wallet home but doesn’t do anything with it for a while.…