Tonight – April 2, 2013 – at the Weyerhauser Memorial Chapel (Macalester College) 7:00-8:30 Students For Education Reform presents the Education Week Key Note Speaker: Chris Stewart is the current Executive Director of the Minnesota African American Leadership Forum. He will speak about his experiences …
I set a goal for my self in January to read 52 books by the end of 2013. When I developed Pneumonia in the middle of January and was home sick through most of February I was able to plow through quite a few books. …
This Thursday, as part of our Maundy Thursday/ Holy Week service. I was asked to help serve communion. Communion has always been a powerful metaphor and symbol of my faith, however I did not expect to find serving communion so meaningful. After a little …
Back in February I introduced the Imagine No Malaria Campaign. Here’s what I wrote We kicked off our Imagine No Malaria campaign at church today, with the goal of saving 2500 lives in the next three years. Through education, bed nets, medicine, draining stagnant water and communication …
I’m sure by now many of you have seen this video of “Hot Cheetos and Takis” by the YNRich Kids at the North Community YMCA here in Minneapolis. Kids all over Minneapolis (and probably all over the country) can’t get enough of these crunchy, spicy, …
John 6 is a dense chapter with lots of little episodes. The chapter starts with Jesus feeding a crowd of 5000 men, (plus likely an equal number of women and additional children), with 2 fish and five loaves. There are 12 baskets of leftovers. The …
This is the introduction to a sermon that I preached this morning at Park Avenue UMC in Minneapolis. It is a little long to post as one blog post, so I’m breaking it into a couple of parts. Enjoy. Yesterday, as soon as I got …
So having worked around 50 hours the past three weeks, I haven’t quite regained the work life balance of being able to do arts or crafts or even exercise. This changes this week, but in the mean time, here are some creative projects that I’ve …
29 As soon as they left the synagogue, they went with James and John to the home of Simon and Andrew. 30Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they immediately told Jesus about her. 31 So he went to her, took her hand and helped her up. …