THIS WEEK @ FMC – June 26-July 9, 2024
Recently I spent an afternoon going through files I’d saved from college and seminary. Most of it ended up in the recycling bin, but I did hang on to some of the things I’d written. In 1993 I wrote a paper for Keith Sprunger’s History of Civilizaiton I class that I have no memory of, […]
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I don’t often think of love as logical. At least not in a way that resonates with a typical defition of logical. Munther Isaac, pastor of Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem (in the occupied West Bank where injustice, violence, death and oppression are daily realities), asserts there IS a logic of love that is inherently […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – June 5-11, 2024
“Ponder anew what the Almighty can do, who with great love still befriends us.” (VT 88; end of verse 3; text written by Joachim Neander 1680) This snippet from “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty” has been playing in my head since Sunday when Peggy sent us out from worship with an arrangement based on […]
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