Today’s readings give us an interesting window into the early church at the end of the first century. The Letter to Titus shows family patterns following traditional norms and Luke’s Gospel describes ...

Last Tuesday the church celebrated the life and death of St. Oscar Romero, archbishop of San Salvador, who was assassinated on March 24, 1980, while saying Mass. Today’s readings highlight an aspect ...

Some congregants use their phones like Bereans, to engage more deeply. They look up historical references or locations, ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran theologian, wrote a series of reflections on the Sermon on the Mount entitled The Cost of Discipleship, in which he maintained that discipleship requires us to ...

Recently a man commented on the “tough topics” I’d taught on over the years—hell, money, sex, relational confrontation, self-discipline. He asked, “Of all the topics you’ve preached on, which has been ...

As I was working out at a local gym, my attention was drawn to the TV that hung from the ceiling. News anchors I didn’t know from a channel I hardly watched made talking points I didn’t understand ...

The Transfiguration is this Sunday, a scene that many preachers (color me guilty) get wrong, but Peter (no matter how many times we make him the patsy in the story) gets right. Here’s a transfigured ...

Each week in North Minneapolis, some 1,400 people—in person and online—hear Pastor Edrin Williams speak about the transformational love of God. As lead pastor of Sanctuary Covenant Church—a ...