Dear St. Lukers, I remember when I graduated high school, I knew exactly what I was going to do with my life. I was headed to journalism school, and I saw a bright future as a newspaper editor and graphic...
Dear Easter People, He is Risen! Hallelujah! As we enter into the beginning week of the celebration of the Great 50 Days of Easter, we do so still overwhelmed by the beautiful Holy Week we experienced. Eight services, six of...
“And when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, ‘This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.’ In the same way he took the cup also, after supper, saying, ‘This cup...
Dear St. Lukers, Last year at this time we were taking in the facts and learning how to put together a completely online Holy Week as we worked through our own grief and fear and learned more information about what...
Dear St. Lukers, It’s hard to believe it’s been a year. When we realized last year that our Holy Week and Easter Sunday would have to be entirely virtual, we made the decision that our first Sunday back we would...
Grace and Peace Beloved St. Lukers, I’ve been thinking about this pandemic (how can you not) and this Lenten journey. I shared a piece on this last Sunday, but lately I’ve been thinking of this pandemic like a dark heavy...
Blessings, I find such profound hilarity in Scripture. This has always been the case and I do not foresee a deviation from this in my future. The passage in the second chapter of John where Jesus drives the people selling...
Dear Hero’s Journeyers, I was reading our Scripture lesson for this week to be ready for our Wednesday night LEARN Bible Study with Pastor Bill. It’s from Mark 8:26-38. It’s a hard text, but as I read I couldn’t help...
Howard Thurman was a shy man who didn’t lead marches or give dramatic speeches. But he was a spiritual genius who transformed history. Thurman was a pastor and professor and mystic whose groundbreaking book, “Jesus and the Disinherited,” was a...
Welcome to The Hero’s Journey, Welcome to Lent 2021. Last night we began our Lenten journey with Ash Wednesday, marking a 40-day journey with Jesus to Jerusalem, the cross, and resurrection. This year we will dig deep into the lectionary...
Anyone who has ever had a blood transfusion owes a debt to Charles Richard Drew, whose immense contributions to the medical field made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th century. Drew helped develop America’s first large-scale...
Dear St. Lukers, As I write this Weekly Update, it’s Tuesday. (We could throw a mini party right now wherever you are that I had the chance to actually write this so early in the week.) I wanted to write...
