Category: Columns
The Green Knight—A Tale Tried, Tested, and Inverted
by Ted Giese This eerie and foreboding retelling of the epic late 14th-century Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a purposeful inversion of the long-studied and revered anonymous work. While it diverges at some points from the general narrative of the…
It’s Been a Wash
by David Haberstock This last year has been a wash. It’s been a wash of worry and anxiety. Worry over the virus, over finances, over kids falling behind socially and mentally as a result of online schooling and other disruptions. Worry about churches: whether…
Hidden Value
by Thomas Kruesel When I graduated from seminary and moved to my first congregation, my family had two pressing needs. First, a second vehicle. Second, money. As you can imagine, the second need influenced the decision-making process in meeting the first need. After much…
Back to Basics
by Mathew Block My wife and I have recently been planning out the next school year for our kids, and reflecting on how we will integrate Luther’s Small Catechism into our children’s education. As I look through the catechism again—with eyes towards instructing someone else…
The Call Process as Gift
by David Haberstock I grew up in a parsonage. I had one pastor until I became a pastor. I had never attended a call meeting before becoming a Regional Pastor. Beyond what the Bible says about “the call,” I knew little about it. So,…
Saint and Sinner in Disney’s Cruella
by Ted Giese In Disney’s new movie Cruella, Estella/Cruella is an orphan girl with a split personality—one half kind, the other half cruel. While on the run she falls in with a pair of pick-pocketing Dickensian grifters, Jasper and Horace, and eventually pursues her lifelong…
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