Returning from the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly in Minneapolis last month there was very little hullabaloo around St. Luke’s. Yes, we’d heard that the assembly had voted to allow “structured flexibility” on matters related to the rostering of LGBT clergy in “publicly accountable, lifelong, monogamous, same-sex relationships” (which I’ve taken to calling “palms”), and blessing … Continue reading Message: Salty… →

On November 20, 1989 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), an international convention outlining in the language of human rights those basic accommodations and liberties that societies across the globe agree should be accorded to children regardless of individual difference or background. It is … Continue reading Message: The Greatest Nation on Earth… →

I half suspect that by waiting until late afternoon on the Friday before Labor Day I will have missed many of you who are taking off for the long weekend by now. Then again, I know I’m not the only one who struggles to turn off the cell phone, put away the laptop, and leave … Continue reading Message: Labor in the Pulpits… →