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Fall Convocation Sermon
Fall Convocation– Oct. 15, 2025 – Closing Worship Holiday Inn, Richland on the River Genesis 32:22-31, Luke 18:1-8 In the late 1950s, my dad and three other guys bought a piece of property west of Custer, South Dakota. It was … Continue reading
Montana Bishop’s Installation – Sept. 20
This past weekend, the Region 1 bishops and the bishop of Western ND traveled to Billings, MT for the installation of the Montana Synod’s new bishop: Bishop Ben Quanbeck. Several former Montana Synod bishops were present for the occasion and … Continue reading
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Bishop’s Report for NWIM Synod Council – Sept. 2025
4 For as in one body we have many members and not all the members have the same function, 5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another. Romans 12:4-5 (NRSVue) Pastor: Since our … Continue reading
Holy Cross Sunday at Troy Lutheran – Sept. 14
John 3:13-17, 1 Cor. 1:18-24 A few weeks ago, I attended an event at the Wassmuth Center for Human Rights in Boise. The Wassmuth Center is named after Bill Wassmuth, a priest at St. Pius X Catholic Church in Coeur d’Alene. In … Continue reading
Highlights from the Treasure Valley
The Bishops’ Holy Land trip I was scheduled to participate in this September was postponed for obvious reasons. To say I lament the genocide, the violence, the tragedy that we have been witnessing in Israel and Palestine seems inadequate. And … Continue reading
United at the Font – the pre-work
Originally published in the NWIM Synod’s e-newsletter. Dear Friends in Christ, We are preparing to open registration for our three one-day United at the Font: Partnering for the Futureevents this fall. As I wrote in our grant application to Wartburg Seminary, these three … Continue reading
Grant Writing as Storytelling: Rural (Ecumenical) Ministry
This post contains our Northwest Intermountain Synod’s grant application to Wartburg Seminary’s Castle Project for small town and rural ministry. I did most of the writing after good conversations with Episcopal Bishop Gretchen Rehberg and Presbyter Sheryl Kinder-Pile up in … Continue reading
Potlach, Aug. 24
Grace Community Church in Potlatch is one of our synod’s four ELCA/PCUSA federated churches, meaning it is fully a member of both denominations. The two churches began sharing a pastor in the 1970s and fully federated just over ten years … Continue reading
ELCA CWA
Originally published in the August electronic-newsletter for the Northwest Intermountain Synod. ELCA Churchwide Assembly 6 Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are … Continue reading
CaSTLE Grant
June 6, 2025 Northwest Intermountain Synod, ELCA Receives Grant from Wartburg Theological Seminary’s CaSTLE Project to Support Rural and Small Town Congregations The Northwest Intermountain Synod, ELCA is honored to announce that it has been selected as a grant recipient … Continue reading
A Place at the Table 