Have you ever felt like that, like God took the party somewhere else and you were left to keep working, past your capacity, past your quitting point? Like you were waiting for a sense of holiness to return to your labor, to your vocation, but with no idea when or how that might happen?
Author: Erik Christensen
Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in "Skevantson" (the unofficial overlap of Evanston and Skokie in Chicago's North Shore).
Sermon: Sunday, August 7, 2016: Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
A young refugee and two immigrants thrust onto the international stage because of who they are and what they have done — but also, I think, because we are hungry for stories of heroism right now.
Sermon: Sunday, July 31, 2016: Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
Jesus recognizes that it is difficult work, trying to live an ethical life in an ethically anemic world.


