Receive (Holy Thursday 2011)

Well, I had a very nice sermon all laid out perfectly on the pulpit.  Then I wrote an outline for a new sermon on the back of the bulletin during the sermon hymn.  So, no manuscript.  But here is the audio: Holy Thursday Sermon – 2011 “

You don’t need to have children to have a marriage…

This post by my cyberfriend Pastor Hans Fiene encapsulates so much of my own thinking on missions, outreach, and the place of buildings and such, I thought that I had actually written it in my sleep and morphed it into his brain.  Okay, that’s a really weird sentence, but you get the idea. Districts are cutting […]

St. Nicholas Orthodox Church – Kenosha

St. Nicholas Orthodox – Kenosha, a set on Flickr. Last Sunday I took about a dozen folks from my parish down the road to see St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Kenosha. The priest, Fr. Stephen Hrycyniak, is a wonderful host and was very kind to us. Generally speaking, it is a beautiful space, although quite […]

Introducing Lessons for Lambs

[Reposted from historiclectionary.com. -LL] I am very pleased to announce the newest addition to historiclectionary.com.  Lessons for Lambs is a series of 65 bulletin inserts that follow all of the Sundays of the one-year lectionary.  They are two pages, designed to be folded in half as a little booklet. Lessons for Lambs is the brain child […]

Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Milwaukee

Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Milwaukee, a set on Flickr. This is the next set of photos from our steeplechase. I’m not generally a fan of abstract sculpture and art, to be honest. This building is a quasi-romanesque space. Kind of squat given the size of it. Very lovely font. It also sported the […]