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On the road with Paul and Barnabas

THEY WANTED TO KILL us in Iconium. We had stayed there long enough to make disciples and enemies, both--and both with feelings in the extreme. Saul...
Christian Century, 08/02/00 by Walter Jr. Wangerin · More from publication
Water, come down

The washing of baptism begins a lifelong process We baptize infants. We believe in the promise that, by water and the word, the Spirit can work in...
Lutheran, The, 11/01/99 by Wangerin, Walter Jr · More from publication
Edification or demolition

Two gas station attendants. One I met at a self-service pump; the other at her desk. The first in rain on a chilly night. The second in the...
Lutheran, The, 10/01/99 by Wangerin, Walter Jr · More from publication
Jesus, our true center

Political causes, no matter how just, don't supersede Jesus At the center of our faith is Jesus. At the center of the Christian church there can...
Lutheran, The, 09/01/99 by Wangerin, Walter Jr · More from publication
Between us: Olga's trip

Where are the angels in your life? Iga Gilbertson had a stroke and couldn't come with us. She told me it made her sad to have missed the cruise....
Lutheran, The, 08/01/99 by Wangerin, Walter Jr · More from publication
cripple of Shanidar, The

Does our definition of progress leave room for compassion? Three skeletons were found in a cave called Shanidar This cave exists 2,500 feet high...
Lutheran, The, 07/01/99 by Wangerin, Walter Jr · More from publication

long, proud lines of youth, The

Graduates carry our legacies and our hopes Last night I listened to several high school jazz bands in concert-listened and lost myself in music....
Lutheran, The, 06/01/99 by Wangerin, Walter Jr · More from publication
Costly confirmation

Expressions of faith that require no labor also carry no weight When publicly the youth confirm their faith, they are responding in their words to...
Lutheran, The, 05/01/99 by Wangerin, Walter Jr · More from publication
Let there be light

Upon the disciples the commission had fallen That same evening 10 disciples were huddled in the upper room. The door had been locked for nearly...
Lutheran, The, 04/01/99 by Wangerin, Walter Jr · More from publication
A lesson in living free

We own possessions-or do they own us? Born when Jesus was born, L. Annaeus Seneca rode fortune's wheel as high and as low as anyone of his age. ...
Lutheran, The, 03/01/99 by Wangerin, Walter Jr · More from publication