February in the United States is Black History Month. In honor of that month, each day in February will feature an African-American saint from different periods of the Civil Rights Movements in America. February 3 Robert Smalls, 1839 - 1915 Smalls was born a slave in South Carolina, a state he always called home. During … Continue reading Twenty-Eight Saints: February 3 and 4
Author: Pastor Ken
Ken Ranos serves as the pastor of Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Indianapolis, IN, a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He blogs at https://ecumenicallife.com/ .
Twenty-Eight Saints: February 1 and 2
February in the United States is Black History Month. In honor of that month, each day in February will feature an African-American saint from different periods of the Civil Rights Movements in America. February 1 Booker T. Washington, 1856 - 1915 Washington was born a slave in Virginia and freed when the Civil War ended. … Continue reading Twenty-Eight Saints: February 1 and 2
Lord, Teach Us to Pray
It's easy for me to empathize with Jesus Christ’s disciples in the Gospel according to Luke when they beg their master and teacher, “Teach us to pray! John taught his disciples how to pray, can you teach us please?”
That’s Christmas to Me
If this were just an isolated incident, I’d think God might have made a miscalculation. But it’s a pattern that’s repeated over and over and over in the Biblical narrative—who matters to God is largely seperate from who matters to human beings.
A Tale of Two Vineyards
Even God’s plans don’t go according to plan.
Living an Ecumenical Life 