Susan's Pendulum

Maggie answers the phone, knows she can't handle whatever-it-is the stranger is saying, and passes the phone off to Mom.  I pick up the ...

"Praise to You, O Lord"? "Glory be to Thee, O .... Christ???  Lord???  What IS the word?" When I was little, I could ...

I admit it up-front: I don't have a sense for decorating.  I would like a prettier house, but I don't want it enough to figure out w...

"So my friend is gay.  He's a really nice guy, and he goes to church and reads his Bible and everything.  Surely God won't sen...

"So my friend is gay.  He's a really nice guy, and he goes to church and reads his Bible and everything.  Surely God won't send...

After several friends suggested " Mirror Mirror " (a Snow White story) we watched it and fell in love with the movie.  Adventure, ...

Any person who does not know what insecurity is does not know what faith is. Wingren, Luther on Vocation , page 36 referring to Lu...

If you're honest, you point out to the clerk * or the bank teller when you've been given too much change.  But some of us don't...

More pictures are available at the photographer's Facebook page .

Symposium last week.  Lots of friends.  Some fun house guests.  Parties.  Theology lectures.  Good times! Work.  Boy, the job sure gets in...

There is a spiritual kingdom "through the word and without the sword, through which men might become devout and righteous, so that alon...

When the bubble-passer-outers ran out of bubbles, they began gathering petals that the flower girls had dropped during the processional. ...

In the Lutheran church, preaching comes after the Bible readings and before the Lord's Supper.  We visited a church once where the Lord...

I used to think it was so unfair of God to have those rules about being clean and unclean.  How could the Jews ever keep those rules?  For e...

"Private and voucher schools do not have the same accountability standards that exist in the public schools."  This time the quote...

Once upon a time, when I called my mom to ask a quick question, sometimes my dad would answer.  Then we'd chat for a few minutes.  Or if...

Put down that bottle of silver polish.  Back away from it slowly.  It is bad .  I didn't know any better.  Those pretty silver-plated ...

One bar of Yardley soap came into our house as a party favor from a baby shower.  (Isn't that the cutest idea?!  Soap for a shower !!) ...

It's fuzzy, but I like the expressions on their faces. (Taken at the wedding rehearsal.)

Many Christians want to have "great faith."  So when we hear that Jesus marveled at the great faith of the centurion in last Sunda...