Last week was quite the adventure! I got to spend the week at the ELCA Youth Gathering in New Orleans. It was an event with 16,500 young people and adult leaders, including around 30 from Trinity. The Gathering was an incredible event where our young people and their leaders experienced worship, service, accompaniment, new relationships, resources for … More There is Always More
Grace and peace to you from God our Creator, and from Jesus, our Savior, who calls us into deep waters. Amen. Our Gospel story from the book of Luke is the calling of the first disciples. These are fisherman. These are just ordinary guys who are going about their work, minding their own business, cleaning, and repairing their … More Going Deep
Human beings have an interesting and sometimes complicated relationship with our own emotions. As children, we try to learn to manage them. Everything is immediate and everything is a crisis. Then we hit puberty, and our emotions become a hormone fed firestorm. As then as young adults, we begin to learn to regulate our emotions, … More From Compassion to Action
One of the really cool things about an experience like Mission Jamaica is the opportunity to immerse yourself in the culture and get to know people. And with the connections of folks like Jeff Peterson, the MJ director, it makes it really fun as well. Today, after we spent some time hanging out around … More Mission Jamaica: Day 6
Test Driving Theology 