Well, yesterday afternoon when Steve said it’s every preacher's dream or nightmare to be told to preach on whatever you want. It’s...

On Tuesday, May 11, 2021 rural pastors from all over the Midwest gathered at Luther Memorial Church in Des Moines, Iowa. A worship...

Russell Lackey was recently published with Missio Alliance: Providing resources for soul care, ministry tools you can use right now, and...

The word “innovation” doesn’t strike the same level of fear in people as the word “change” does. Yet, when people hear this word used at...

Let me take you into the skilled nursing facility where I’m the Dir. Of Spiritual Care. COVID has changed everything. It started with a...

I choose to believe the Apostle Paul was thinking about writing a sermon when he penned these words in 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 16 So we do...

Sermon from the January Moses Retreat 2021 Scripture reading Matthew 11 28 "Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy...

Having grown up in a suburban neighborhood in the sixties and seventies, going to college in an urban setting, then serving as a...

It’s awfully hard to make plans right now, Pastor Chad Whaley, acknowledged. “It’s challenging to rally people at church. Decisions need...

Teaser: Using a ‘dialogical lens’ for scripture and preaching can open new options for “Purple Zone” sermons in the red-blue divide....

If the dictionary published pictures with its definitions, you’d see Patti Meyer’s face beside the word resilient. Rev. Meyer serves as...

When I was invited to share at a Moses Project retreat last January, I was given the impossible task of sharing all the things I wish I'd...

I was talking to Pastor Amy Truhe on the phone when she gave me this piece of advice for surviving pastor burnout: “everybody needs to...

It was 1969. I was a junior in high school and our Luther League drove from Rapid City to Sioux Falls to attend a gathering at Augustana...

I was once Mickey Mouse’ bodyguard. For one evening. For about 2 hours. But it altered the way I saw the world and today deeply impacts...

Reflections on Open Secrets: A Memoir of Faith and Discovery In the Gospels many of the episodes in Jesus’s ministry have their origin in...

We are living the history that Ph.D. candidates will pull apart for years to come and the history junior high students will study for...

It is ironic that my best insight in being an effective pastor came one week before my official retirement. It wasn’t new to me although...

I’m a Madison girl (that’s my mother’s maiden name). My mother and her three sisters grew up helping at their parent’s restaurant. They...

Moses Project Cohort Pastor Brian Jack told me about a class he’s taking on preaching. During the class the subject of how long an...