“Where is the land to which you belong and that belongs to you?” One way I can answer that question is by pulling out my passport.  Here,...

As many of you know, I have been teaching at Wagner College again this term, this time a survey course on  Judaism, Christianity, and...

Yesterday, Feb. 2, Lutheran social services were falsely accused by the Trump administration of money laundering and receiving illegal...

Grace and peace to you from my last early-morning in front of our lit Christmas tea. I know that Epiphany, the traditional end to the...

This is without question the strangest Christmas season of my lifetime. There will be no vacation and holiday travel for us. There will...

The early Christian church—and later especially the Eastern Orthodox tradition—venerated Mary as what they called the “Theotokos.” Gave...

Advent is the season of waiting for the coming of God, for the coming of God made flesh in Jesus Christ at Christmas. But it isn’t a...

Where do you see Jesus? In Scripture? In our life together as his church? In the world? In your neighbor? Where do you see Jesus? That...

My mother told a story about her days as a refugee in Germany at the end of World War II. She and her family had just trekked west in...

Are you ready? That is the fundamental question in our Gospel reading this Sunday. Are you ready for God? Are you ready to experience...

We are now firmly in the month of October. September was not the normal back-to-school, back-to-choir, back-to-Sunday-school kind of...

It's never too late. That is the message we hear in our scripture readings this week. It’s never too late. It’s never too late to clean...

Alex Marshall-Brown was sitting on the grass of St. Paul's First Lutheran Church (WELS) in North Hollywood, around the corner from the...