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What Does It Mean to Be in Relationship?

One of the great dances we do as pastors is around relationships. When we are in a place with a people we love and guide.  We stand in hospital rooms, we encourage people as they come out, we carry secrets not spoken to others.  We celebrate together, share life...

We Are Responsible

Dominion Responsibility Rule Take Charge Care These are the words used in Genesis to describe the role God gives to humans in relationship to creation. As we hear the concerning news from scientists about climate change and experience heat and smoke here in our...

An Orange Sky

The light today is wrong. The colors of the church wall, the flowers in our yard, the pavement are all off. The sky itself is a buttery wool color, it is the color of smoke. Wildfires are raging over the west and while the air at ground level is clear, the skies above...

Weary

I’m trying to be more active and healthier so I set my alarm to ring at 5 to the hour and then I walk for 5 minutes. When I’m at the Trinity building I pop on my mask and head from my office down to the sanctuary for my walking. Or at least that is what I...

The End

Last year my in-laws moved to Oregon from Illinois in the midst of some substantial health issues. This past week our little family of three flew back to Chicago to clean out their business, a music studio in one of the western suburbs, so that we could sell the...