Wow. This one is so hard to write. A pastor is never supposed to have favorites in a congregation. Never. But, then there was Melvin. How co...

Oh, where to even begin? I’ve sung in her ear for years, because the basses sit right behind the altos. Even after the cancer diagnosis, as ...

I have so many of these to catch up on. I haven’t written much on the blog in ages. Leroy and Bev have just been part of life at St. Paul’s ...

I sure never thought my next post on this blog would be this one. Rest eternal grant her, O Lord, and let light perpetual shine upon her! Wh...

…with journalist Terry Mattingly. Here’s the article he wrote:  The Need for Advent Music Playlists

…it only took, what?, six years for me to finally figure out that having ethernet in my study would be a good thing. Got it done today, than...

Dear Northern Brother, this is the menu this year: Pre-feast Deviled eggs (half plain, half topped with smoked salmon) Various cheeses and c...

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. People loved by God, did you notice the tension between the Gospel r...

Robin, Jay, Rebecca, Dustin and Whitaker; Kirk and Dan, family and friends of Gary Steinmann, today is November 22. Thus it was 65 years and...

If you haven’t ordered your copy yet of I Remember: A Life of Mary , it might be just the Christmas gift you need for children or grandchild...

I refer to the Collect of the Day for Trinity 14. In TLH this ran:  Keep, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy Church with Thy perpetual mercy; and ...

I had just finished writing an article for our Issues Etc. Journal yesterday when I checked in on X only to read what seemed about a thousan...