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March 2012

March 31, 2012

Idea for Maundy Thursday

The ordo for Maundy Thursday is traditionally all mixed up...we start with the sermon. Here's...

March 28, 2012

Being good doesn’t make you free. The Truth makes you free.

Nadia sermon new people 1 <--------Click here to listen along. Sermons are a spoken...

March 27, 2012

Stations of the Cross 2010 – Made Entirely From News Photos of the Haiti Earthquake

As we approach Holy Week, I want to share some of the things we've tried...

March 22, 2012

The Spiritual Practice of Saying “Yes!”

Yesterday I wrote a blog post about the spiritual practice of saying "no". I stand...

March 21, 2012

The Spiritual Practice of Saying “No”. (sisters, take note)

I've had the weirdest thing happen recently. People have thanked me for saying no to...

March 08, 2012

Sermon on Losing Your Life and How Jesus Isn’t Your Magical Puppy

Sermon Mark 8:31-37 <-------Click here to listen along. Sermons are a spoken form...

March 06, 2012

Gorgeous photo from last Sunday’s liturgy

The 2nd Sunday of Lent. House for All Sinners and Saints.

March 06, 2012

the nonsense comments on the CNN post about me and 4 other women in religion

Yesterday I was featured on the CNN website along with 4 other women in...

March 05, 2012

Sermon on the Transfiguration and How Seminary is Like Hogwarts

Transfiguration sermon 2-19-12 <----click to listen along! My friends joke about how useless a Masters...

March 02, 2012

Steampunk Theology

I've discovered a new blog. Steampunk Theology. Awesome.

February 2012

February 25, 2012

House for All Sinners and Saints’ 40 Ideas for Keeping a Holy Lent

House for All Sinners and Saints’ 40 ideas for keeping a holy Lent www.houseforall.org Day...

February 23, 2012

Why I love Ash Wednesday and Lent part 2: Death

In the rest of our lives it seems that we are consumed by the...

February 22, 2012

Why I Love Lent: Sin Is One Of My Favorite Things To Talk About

Ash Wednesday is my favorite day of the church year and Lent is my favorite...

February 15, 2012

My testimony at the Colorado Senate Judiciary hearing on civil unions

I was asked by the Interfaith Alliance of Colorado to testify in front of the senate...

February 13, 2012

Apparently HFASS is an example of the horrible things that go wrong when women become pastors

Yesterday afternoon I received an email from a friend of a friend who said that...

February 11, 2012

Sermon on Jesus’ Dream Team: Rank Fishermen, Demoniacs and Sick Old Ladies

Click on link below to hear audio: Sermon on Jesus' Dream Team: rank fishermen,...

February 03, 2012

I love Jesus, But I Swear a Little: An Open Invitation to Unfriend Me on Facebook, Stop Following Me on Twitter and Discontinue Reading My Blog if You Need To.

If you are a Christian who takes offense at swear words or believes for some...

January 2012

January 30, 2012

Whose Church Is This? Mine, Yours, Theirs, or God’s?

House for all Sinners and Saints, the congregation I serve in Denver, Colorado, started with...

January 26, 2012

Are Gen Xers: the New Baby Boomers?

I recently realized that someday I too will be a baby boomer. It’s not that...

January 21, 2012

Liturgical Naming Rite for a Transgender Church Member

This week one of my parishioners, Asher O'Callaghan wrote a post for the Fund for...

January 19, 2012

Book Review: Simplifying the Soul: Lenten Practices to Renew Your Spirit by Paula Huston

Simplifying the Soul: Lenten Practices to Renew Your Spirit by Paula Huston (Ave Maria...

January 16, 2012

Sermon on Psalm 139 and the Spirituality of Having a Human Body.

This week a video went viral on the Internet. Not some cloyingly cute thing with...

January 13, 2012

Why I hate Religion, But Love Jesus – A Response

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1IAhDGYlpqY This video went viral this week and I've been asked by the ELCA office...

January 13, 2012

Adult Confirmation

Tuesday morning as we walked out of a meeting at Augustana Lutheran Church, I turned...

January 09, 2012

Wild Beasts and Sheet Cake: A Sermon for Baptism of Our Lord

Mark 1:4-13 4John the baptizer appeared in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism of repentance...

January 06, 2012

The Problem With Pews

For the first 1,300 + years of the church there was no seating in churches. ...

January 04, 2012

What should we do with dying urban churches?

This last week I briefly visited a mainline church in the neighborhood House for All...

December 2011

December 29, 2011

I’m a church socialist. There. I said it.

Recently I was helping a synod in the ELCA (my denomination) undergo an evaluation of...

December 27, 2011

20 years without a drink. It’s personal.

Yesterday marked 20 years of being clean and sober. It also marked 20 years without...

December 20, 2011

“So, are you ready for Christmas?”

Something I wrote in December 2007 when House for All Sinners and Saints was 8...