WHY? I am receiving many questions about my new involvement with the Lutheran Deaconess Association (LDA), The questions come in many forms. The questions are not judgmental. The questions express a sincere curiosity, but, also express that people have trouble understanding what this “deacon thing” is all about. The questions essentially boil down to two: […]
Profound! Delightful! Insightful! Enriching! All of the above. I probably like this book so much because I had the chance to live in the author’s home for over a week while in diaconal formation. We were so busy with formation that I didn’t get to visit with him and his wife as much I wanted […]
It is not often that I get teary at the end of a book, but Mitch Albom has done it again in his book have a little faith: a true story (Albom, Mitch, 2011). It really made me mad, because I was finishing it in a restaurant while waiting for my food. I hate it […]
I was afraid to use the term Lent in the title of this blog for fear people would immediately delete. For many churches Lent has become trivialized, marginalized or completely eliminated because they say it is too gloomy and too much a downer. I believe the trend away from Lent reflects our culture’s fear of […]
I am in the middle of a major life transition. It is a transition that I never expected, but it is here. There truly was a long period of restlessness and then a triggering pivot point. As is the case, once a pivot point presents itself it requires action and one either freezes where one […]