As we approach Holy Week, I want to share some of the things we’ve tried at church.  the following is a very simple idea: In 2010 House for All Sinners and Saints made a set of the Stations of the Cross out of news photos of the Haiti Earthquake.           All [...]

    Sermon Mark 8:31-37 <——-Click here to listen along.  Sermons are a spoken form of communication! 31Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32He said all [...]

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

  Yesterday I was featured on the CNN website along with 4 other women in a post called “5 Women in Religion to Watch” I am usually not a big comment reader.  I read them here on Sarcastic Lutheran, but when I write for God’s Politics or when an interview with me is published on-line [...]

Transfiguration sermon 2-19-12 <—-click to listen along! My friends joke about how useless a Masters of Divinity is outside the church.  How having a degree from seminary is basically like having a degree from Hogwarts.  Knowing all about the magic is just not that useful outside the “wizarding world”. This was confirmed for me this [...]

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

House for All Sinners and Saints’ 40 ideas for keeping a holy Lent www.houseforall.org Day 1: Pray for your enemies Day 2: Walk, carpool, bike or bus it. Day 3: Don’t turn on the car radio Day 4: Give $20 to a non-profit of your choosing (Sunday) Day 5: Take 5 minutes of silence at [...]

  In the rest of our lives it seems that we are consumed by the hopeless project of ensuring our own immortality.  As though we can live forever or fend off the insult of aging with the right combination of exercise, diet, self-care and if we can afford it, elective surgery.  Face creams, hair die, [...]