Into the wilderness for Lent

Into the wilderness for Lent

…a Facebook message to theologian Anna Madsen, thinking she might also be an early bird, but either she is not, or she has the good sense not to spend her…

Ready for a change

Ready for a change

…restlessly, eager to move on to communion. And I’m not alone. As Anna Madsen writes, “many mainline denominations (like Lutheran churches) tend to ‘intellectualize’ faith and ‘make [faith] a matter…

Dear God, thank you for… Look! A bird!

Dear God, thank you for… Look! A bird!

by Anna Madsen— I am the world’s lousiest pray-er. Never been good at it. I’ve gone to workshops, consulted with spiritual directors and even tried praying about it. Didn’t work….

God knows what we need

God knows what we need

…2018 issues—be about what we are becoming, too? Bible study author and theologian Anna Madsen (p. 20) takes an interesting approach, using 1 Samuel 12 to explore this and other…