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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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