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Madness

Pastoral Messages | March 16, 2023

The Ig Nobel Prize is a satiric prize offered annually since 1991, a pun on the actual Nobel Prize awarded in Sweden every year. The ignoble nature of these actual prizes aims to honor unusual achievements that “first make people laugh, and then make…

3

What Do You Do For a Living?

Pastoral Messages | March 9, 2023

All pastors have had a “first year,” and some of the lessons and experiences in that first year will likely make up the initial core snowball that will eventually roll into a large circular mound of snow 25 years later. One lesson or somewhat common…

4

What we do and don’t know

Pastoral Messages | March 2, 2023

A recent news story reported research on a relatively new artificial sweetener. It gave the results of the study, but a majority of the story quoted the scientists on another point. They cautioned readers about how much they still don’t know about th…

6

Vandalism stinks

Pastoral Messages | February 23, 2023

I love to try and wrap my head around things I don’t understand, to learn something about all that I don’t know. Usually this journey is rewarding; sometimes it’s fruitless, though, leaving little more than an empty feeling. Case in point: vandalism….

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Communities of faith

Pastoral Messages | February 16, 2023

With people around the world, I have been reading and listening to news stories about last week’s earthquake in Syria and Turkey. I’ve been struck by images of entire blocks and cities destroyed, more than 35,000 people dead, and scores of others inj…

7

Practicing awe

Pastoral Messages | February 9, 2023

When is the last time you might say you were in awe of something? Can you think of the last experience or situation that caused you to utter the word “wow”? Maybe it was when you looked outside your window this morning to see a fresh coat of white sn…

The spirit of Groundhog Day

Pastoral Messages | February 2, 2023

Attempts and desires to predict the future are likely as ancient as the human brain itself. Wonderings or anxieties about potential good or bad fortunes heading our way arouse within us a desire to know now what will happen tomorrow, next week, or te…

8

The science of well-being

Pastoral Messages | January 26, 2023

There’s another Santos in the news right now besides George, the congressman from Long Island who’s making headlines for his lies. Laurie Santos is a popular professor of psychology at Yale University. We should say very popular. Her 2018 course, “Ps…

4

An open letter to the sandwich generation

Pastoral Messages | January 19, 2023

Dear Moms/Daughters, Fathers/Sons, Parents/Children,  I am not one of you, but I see you. Technically speaking, you “sandwichers” are adults, likely in your forties and fifties, who find yourselves caring for both your aging parents and your own chil…

8

What’s your hurry?

Pastoral Messages | January 12, 2023

There’s likely no place where people are in more of a hurry to get out than at the grocery store. Most of us, I’d guess, arrive at the store with list in hand (or at least some idea of what needs to be purchased). We grab a cart—or possibly tempt fat…

5

Sharing the light

Pastoral Messages | January 5, 2023

Near the end of our annual Blue Christmas service, people come forward to light little votive candles. As they come, the sparkling lights on the Christmas tree and blue lights provide the barest of illumination in the darkness of the sanctuary. At ta…

2

What’s your tradition?

Pastoral Messages | December 29, 2022

One of the things I love most about this time of year is hearing the details of others’ varied Christmas traditions. Between the shuffling in and out of the church on Christmas Eve last Saturday, I chatted with all sorts of people—some attending alon…

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Lenten Wednesday

wed 12:00 pm Sara Olson-Smith preaching
wed 7:00 pm Sara Olson-Smith preaching

Worship Mar 25 & 26

Fifth Sunday in Lent

sat 5:00 pm Peter W. Marty preaching
sun 8:00 am Megan Eide preaching
sun 9:00 am Peter W. Marty preaching
sun 11:15 am Megan Eide preaching

Worship Mar 29

Lenten Wednesday

wed 12:00 pm Max Franks preaching
wed 7:00 pm Max Franks preaching

Worship Apr 1 & 2

Palm Sunday

sat 5:00 pm Sara Olson-Smith preaching
sun 8:00 am Peter W. Marty preaching
sun 9:00 am Sara Olson-Smith preaching
sun 11:15 am Peter W. Marty preaching

Worship Apr 6

Maundy Thursday

thu 12:00 pm Megan Eide preaching
thu 7:00 pm Megan Eide preaching

Worship Apr 7

Good Friday

fri 12:00 pm Max Franks preaching
fri 4:00 pm Children's service
fri 8:00 pm Peter W. Marty preaching

Worship Apr 9

Easter Sunday

sun 6:00 am Sara Olson-Smith preaching
sun 8:00 am Peter W. Marty preaching
sun 9:30 am Peter W. Marty preaching
sun 11:30 am Peter W. Marty preaching

Worship Apr 15 & 16

Second Sunday of Easter

sat 5:00 pm Megan Eide preaching
sun 8:00 am Max Franks preaching
sun 9:00 am Megan Eide preaching
sun 11:15 am Max Franks preaching

Worship Apr 22 & 23

Third Sunday of Easter

sat 5:00 pm Peter W. Marty preaching
sun 8:00 am Peter W. Marty preaching
sun 9:00 am Peter W. Marty preaching
sun 11:15 am Peter W. Marty preaching

Worship Apr 29 & 30

Fourth Sunday of Easter

sat 5:00 pm Sara Olson-Smith preaching
sun 8:00 am Max Franks preaching
sun 9:00 am Sara Olson-Smith preaching
sun 11:15 am Max Franks preaching

Worship May 6 & 7

Fifth Sunday of Easter

sat 5:00 pm Sara Olson-Smith preaching
sun 8:00 am Sara Olson-Smith preaching
sun 9:00 am Sara Olson-Smith preaching
sun 11:15 am Sara Olson-Smith preaching
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