In Muskegon we are facing a very large justice issue, an issue that we need to address. For too long, we have experienced an overzealous prosecutor’s office that seems too willing to put too many of our citizens into jails. The African-American community has known this reality for a long time. Many from that community Read more
Wow! The world is feeling a bit wild these days. The Muskegon Heights school district has just been raided by the state authorities. School districts of all kinds are facing some major cuts in their budgets. Workers are having their bargaining rights taken away. Too many Muskegonites I know are being arrested and being put in Read more
Ash Wednesday is such a powerful day to me. It is a startling day. It’s a day that reminds us that “we are dust and to dust we shall return.” My son Micah in his own blog has written: “Where else in this culture do we hear [this]? Where else are we told explicitly, without Read more
In my life I normally approach people and their requests of me with an assumption of “yes.” Now my wife points out that this gets me into trouble. I assume flexibility that isn’t always there. I book more things than I can handle. But truthfully, I prefer the presumption of yes to that of no. Read more
It always intrigues me how we respond to disasters like the one that just happened in Arizona. It is so hard for us to accept what happens in life without blaming someone or some thing. Instead of just embracing the tragedy of what has occurred we look for scapegoats. In my opinion, Sarah Palin, members Read more
It seems to me that maturity involves learning how to relate to other people in an adult fashion. I note the number of adults who relate to others the way that middle schoolers do. From my perspective often middle schoolers have lots of hurt feelings, lots of “she said that he said” conversations, lots of Read more
There was a discussion in adult SS recently that maybe the kind of preaching you hear in ELCA churches is too grace centered. We turn people into couch potatoes, the claim is. I disagreed with the claim. I don’t think we need less grace, but more grace, albeit not cheap grace. My son clarified the Read more
I have been thinking quite a bit recently about how we define life in the context of a Christian congregation. For a while now, people have been used to speaking of being a “member” of a church. This notion makes loads of sense, but I am becoming convinced that it is not adequate to describe Read more
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