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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
Wild Women Retreat
This past weekend I led devotions for the Wild Women Retreat at Shoshone Mountain Retreat, part of Lutherhaven Ministries. 38 women from WA, ID, and MT, ranging in age from 20s to 80s, rafted on the Clark Fork in Montana, … Continue reading
Easter 7 Sermon for Montana Synod Assembly
There’s been a lot of travel and I forgot to drop this on my blog. Montana Synod Assembly May 31, 2025 John 17:20-26 When I hear Jesus’ prayer for his disciples in our reading from John’s gospel today, I hear … Continue reading
Walla Walla Installation Sermon – July 13
Installation of Pastor Lars Hammer Christ Lutheran, Walla Walla July 13, 2025 Mark 4:1-9, Isaiah 40:1-11, Psalm 96, Romans 12:4-8 An installation service is a great day for celebration. We celebrate the journeys of both the congregation and pastor or deacon and the … Continue reading
A Place at the Table 