Category: Columns
Help is on the Way
by Marvin Bublitz As I travel around the East Region, at times I need to stay in hotels. Some are in bigger cities and some in small towns. When I stay in places like Montreal or Toronto, it seems that all night I hear sirens—ambulances…
God in a Box
by Timothy Teuscher “Post-modernism” is a word used to describe our society and culture here in the 21st century. In a book I recently read on this subject as it pertains to the mission of the church, the author describes post-modernism in these words: “It…
Christmas Presence
by Mathew Block The Christmas story as it appears in St. John’s Gospel is not the version with which we are most familiar. There are no mentions here of Mary and Joseph, no angels singing to shepherds in the fields, no baby being wrapped in…
Lutherans are Advent People
by David Haberstock Change is all around us. Change can be good. It can be bad. But whether good or bad, change can cause anxiety. My life changed this year. I became a Regional Pastor and no longer serve a parish. My wife started university…
Doctor Sleep: Adequate adaptation raises questions of faith
by Ted Giese In Doctor Sleep, Dan Torrance, a hospice orderly and recovering alcoholic, has a psychic connection with a young teen girl, Abra Stone, that escalates when a nomadic group of gypsy-like psychic vampires called the True Knot led by matriarch Rose the Hat,…
The Comfort of the Communion of Saints
by Robert Mohns A couple of years ago I had the great blessing of walking along the Napoleon route of the Camino Santiago de Compostela in the northern Iberian Peninsula of Spain. One day in a local church, I made the observation that I had…
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