Two weeks ago, I began the story of my first night on call as a student chaplain in the hospital. I had begged my way into the internship program because the program supervisor (in training herself) had deemed me too young and inexperienced at first. After working several daytime shifts in the first week on […]
One of my first “hands on” ministry experiences took place during the month-long January term in the middle of my first year of seminary; I turned 23 years old that month. Instead of signing up for a traditional classroom elective course, I had applied for and was barely accepted into, a half unit of what […]
As we have already been reminded this morning a very real and worrisome way, the tongues of fire that suddenly appeared among the apostles gathered all together in one house for Pentecost probably didn’t give them a sense of the spirit, spirit of gentleness. Instead it came, as Acts tells us, with a sound like […]
It is good to be back in worship with you all after a couple of weekends away. I was only actually out of town for one week, but at this time last week, I was still snoozing a bit since we didn’t get home from the Honduras medical mission trip until about midnight the night […]
It wouldn’t have been right for Mary and Mary Magdalene to go to the tomb any earlier than first thing on Sunday morning. They couldn’t travel, especially not to a place where the dead are buried, on the Sabbath. But as soon as there was light on the next day, they made their way to […]
As we jump into this story from the gospel according to John, I have to start first with a little bit of nerdy Bible history. And this time (because we know I do love some nerdy Bible history) it’s a little less about the history in the Bible and more about the history of the […]
One of the popular service projects my college campus ministry group participated in was Saturday morning gleaning. Gleaning – with a G, not cleaning with a C. I’m not sure I know any college students excited about cleaning on a Saturday morning. But when we organized gleaning trips, we could always get a good crowd. […]
