In helping Middleton recover from the 2018 flood, the first thing I learned is that everything is connected. Things that had been...

What else can go wrong?… What will go right! It seems like this year, each day, week, and month brings new challenges. We cannot escape...

As a kid, I would lose sleep worrying about the environment. To be fair, I’d lose sleep worrying about my multiplication tables and what...

“Everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid. They’ll be safe in the nation we’ve made.” from...

Finding one’s purpose in life can be easy for some and challenging for others. While I always knew I loved children, I wasn’t always...

As always, I was running late. The only difference this time was that I was actually running. I had woken up on time, but stayed in bed...

“No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who...

“Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.” Colossians 3:15...

Below is Psalm 25:1-9. I encourage us to offer this reading as our prayer for today. The saying is probably true “a student is only as...

When I was completing my second full-time interim at English Lutheran in LaCrosse someone gave me the book The Land Remembers by Ben...