1/14/2014 5:36 AM
Patricia Tull
For the first million years of human existence climate change was no threat, not because our ancestors knew more than we do now, but because, unaware of …
1/7/2014 5:53 AM
Nathan Aaseng
I recently attended a funeral service for a young person whose parents I know. The service was performed at a church of another Christian denomination, …
1/1/2014 4:19 AM
Kae Evensen
This January, we rush from Christmas into Epiphany, the time between too brief. We do that every year and it’s hard on me. I’m a Revised Common …
12/26/2013 5:31 AM
Patricia Tull
I recently heard a preacher commenting on...
“...the way we sometimes loathe ourselves and behave self-destructively. The way we hurt and wound one …
12/17/2013 9:51 PM
Nathan Aaseng
We do a Blue Christmas service every year for those coping with loss. Preaching for it is one of the profound experiences of ministry.
Blue Christmas deals …
12/10/2013 5:19 AM
Kae Evensen
Waiting and preparation shape these days of Advent, two thousand years ago and today. In this season of Advent, a season defined and determined by faith, …
11/21/2013 5:16 AM
Patricia Tull
For those of us who snoozed through high school English class decades ago: A brief review of metaphors, and why we who read Scripture care about them. Bear …
11/12/2013 6:18 AM
Nathan Aaseng
I’m a good person. I worship God in my own way. I don’t need people telling me how I should think or what I should believe. Who needs all the …
11/5/2013 6:16 AM
Kae Evensen
At my first synod assembly as an intern, still quite naive to the hopes and difficulties of ministry, we gathered in the bleachers as pastors were honored …
10/22/2013 5:51 AM
Patricia Tull
When can we get to the future? Are we there yet?
Few readers of Working Preacher advocate a “quick and easy” rapture for Christians, followed …
10/8/2013 7:17 AM
Kae Evensen
Like so many of us who are of a religious ilk, I function in two worlds. The first world seems to dominate most of my time and energy. It involves getting …
10/1/2013 8:49 PM
Nathan Aaseng
I have an unusually heavy schedule of weddings to perform this year -- three in the next 10 months. Which doesn’t sound heavy until you consider that’s …
9/24/2013 5:57 AM
Patricia Tull
Amtrak attracts folks who enjoy the journey as much as the destination. The Empire Builder runs a century-old course from Chicago, through Wisconsin, Minnesota, …
9/10/2013 6:09 AM
Nathan Aaseng
The news was devastating.
A young man who appeared to have a lot going for him, who appeared to have a bright future, got himself into such trouble that …
9/3/2013 6:43 AM
Kae Evensen
Evening falls, another moment comes and goes, the voices rise and fall, each day a gift, each evening scented with lilacs or drying wheat or smoke, depending …