An invitation to join a 24 hour prayer room between Pastor’s Conference and Synod Often the New Testament urges us as Christians to ‘pray continually.’ But what does that really mean? The NT is often written in the plural but we read it in the singular. To pray...
I grew up in a fairly typical Lutheran church. As I was growing up there was never any question whether women could be pastors or not. Of course not. Everyone knew that women couldn’t be pastors, because they never had been. Besides, Jesus only chose male disciples. I...
In silence groans caught up in prayer we plead for those we love not from the joyless stance of Judas returning to consciousness after betraying his deepest self but from an open-heart broken and gifted able to question and wonder hopeful in uncertainty free to...
There is a lot of talk about our need for resilience these days. I don’t know about you, but it conjures up for me, images of having to try harder, be braver, and have more positive thoughts, the latter of which has always been difficult for me. I’m more likely to cry...
The quick and easy way to end disputes. . .or maybe not. One of the great pleasures in life for some of us is a good game of Scrabble or – my favourite – Upwords. A dear Aunty of mine and I are keen players, and the main house rule is about whether a word can be...
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