“In the beginning”, the Creation Hymn declares that the Earth was covered in darkness. When you think of “the Earth”, do you think of the Blue Marble photograph of earth floating in outer space? On December 7, 1972 Apollo 17 flew far enough away from earth to fit the whole planet in the camera’s viewfinder, […]
Monthly Archives: August 2025
Dear Friends, Perhaps your phone alerted you to the all too unimaginable evil that unfolded today at the Annunciation Church and Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Our thoughts and prayers fail to contain the depths of sorrows brought on by the epidemic of gun violence affecting our land. As I have prayed for the families, […]
The Franklin County Ministerial Alliance did not meet during the summer, so my Senior Pastor sent me to represent our church at the August meeting. I was fresh out of seminary, in my first appointment, and my second month at the church. After the preachers finished their second, third or fourth trip to the breakfast […]
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