Night grows long this time of year. Back on June 21st, the summer solstice, daylight stretched more than four hours longer each day than it will through this month of December. I often wonder how people living much further from the equator than us manage through the long, dark days of winter. In Barrow, the… Read More

Thank God for summer.  The season affords many of us the chance to temporarily step away from our ordinary routines to enter a different rhythm.  For at least a week or two – and sometimes longer (as in the case of this lucky sabbatical-taking pastor) – we depart from places we call home to visit… Read More

Each Sunday during July and August we will look at a specific story and see how Jesus extends grace to those in need (through what are called the seven signs) and speaks truth to those who need to have “the eyes of their hearts” opened (through 7 dialogues).  What we will discover is God’s grace… Read More