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ConseCrate – Subscription Box for Ordained and other Professional Women In Ministry
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Epic Scavenger Hunt
Our church and community recently held a great social-distancing activity. People arrived in teams and so were only riding in cars with people in their own households. We stood at a distance from one another outside the church as the rules were explained and any items handed from one person to another were done so…
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I NEVER THOUGHT I’D SEE A LYNCHING — Bishop Jim Arends
I was a teenager during the Viet Nam Era. One night the evening news decided the American public needed to see the horrors of the war. There on our livingroom television a Viet Cong fighter was forced to kneel. An American soldier walked up to the man and shot him in the head. it was […]…
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Video Editing Software
We are having a lot of fun trying some new things with our worship videos now that the pandemic has made it so that my congregation can’t worship in person right now. We have been using some very simple video editing software but recently we received a grant to upgrade our software and equipment for…
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What Does God Think of Me?
Many of us are spending more time on the internet and on computers than we ever have before just trying to stay in touch with each other and communicate differently for our work. When I was on a Zoom call earlier this week with some members of our congregation and I asked them what were…
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A Love Letter to a Church When We are Worshiping Apart (Yet Together) on a Fresh Day in a New World
Last night I dreamed I was giving birth to a baby girl. It was a strange dream because it has been a long time now since we were in the stage of adding members to our little family. It was also strange because the obstetrician was an old friend from the Twin Cities who has…
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What Does God Say About Fear?
In these strange times of Covid-19 I have been thinking more about fear and anxiety and how to think about it in terms of faith. There have been so many times when I am feeling anxious that turning to the Bible has been the only thing that has brought me comfort. So, if you are…
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#40 – Get a massage
#40 on the list of fifty things I want to do before I turn 50 was get a massage. I hadn’t had one since 2001 so I figured it wasn’t too frivolous a purchase. I asked around and got a referral to a masseuse in Detroit Lakes at https://stylesonwillow.wixsite.com/salon. Her name is Emily Milligan and…
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#42 Learn a New Salad Recipe
I love vegetables but especially when I am traveling, I tend to eat mostly bread in some way, shape, or form. Scones, bagels, crackers – I love the carbs. So, now that we are back, I want to swing the pendulum back toward regularly eating vegetables. I went looking on the internet for some good…