Category: Pastors’ Letters

I am writing this on a cold and snowy January afternoon, hunkered down in my home office, feeling the icy chill of winter in my fingers as I type. Winter …

I am writing this on December 18, 7 days before Christmas and 14 days before we turn the page on the year 2023. I suspect that, like me, many of …

Disruptive. Confusing. Scary. Exciting. Disorienting. Have you ever experienced a situation or a season in your life that could be marked by any or all of these words? As I …

As I sit on my front porch and type this letter, I sense fall all around me: afternoon sunlight hitting my face and hands through the now sparse leaves of …

Happy Mission Month! In October, we celebrate that the Mission Ministries of ELPC are central to our life of faith, and lift up some of the many ways in which …

Where did summer go? It seems that with a blink of an eye, June, July, and August whisked by, and planning for the new fall, church season began. It is …

Below this letter, you will see the poem/prayer by the French Jesuit priest, scientist, paleontologist, theologian, philosopher, and teacher, Teilhard de Chardin. It is a prayer I return to time …

In a world where there is so little that is constant, I typically take scales of measurement for granted. A cup of milk is a cup of milk. 10 pounds …

A few years ago, I preached a sermon on liminality—occupying a position at, or on both sides of a boundary, balancing what is with what is to come. In reformed …

I love questions. Questions open us up, cause us to search and look deeper or wider than perhaps we would normally turn our gaze. They turn up the soil, they …