by mtangen | Mar 22, 2021 | Pastor Chris
Friends, Christ is Risen! As you can probably imagine, these articles are due well ahead of the day they arrive in your inboxes and mailboxes. So, it may be a sunny day as you read, but as I write I can see out the window of my home office that a band of snow has...
by mtangen | Feb 23, 2021 | Pastor Chris
A year. That’s how long it has been since we were last in one space together. How long it’s been since we passed bread from hand to hand, lifted our voices in unison, welcomed the children running back in into worship eager to share what they had learned about God...
by mtangen | Jan 28, 2021 | Pastor Chris
Dear Trinity, As is the tradition when Valentine’s Day rolls around, I thought I might take a moment to tell you that I love you. Before we met, I had heard of you through friends. Not much more than what a fine church you were, way out here in Stillwater. Then the...
by mtangen | Dec 21, 2020 | Pastor Chris
My first visit to Disney World was as a teenager with my family. We drove all the way from Eau Claire. Ted and I have taken our kids twice. It is visually astonishing, imaginary perfection. No detail too small to stamp with the Disney-verse brand—usually iconic mouse...
by mtangen | Nov 30, 2020 | Pastor Chris
As the snow came down this morning, I felt a familiar frisson of excitement—the kind that starts to bubble up as Christmas catalogs begin to arrive in the mail. Baking lists take shape in my mind. I think about the tree that will sparkle in the dining room window and...
by mtangen | Oct 20, 2020 | Pastor Chris
Siblings in Christ, We open each November with All Saints’ Sunday worship, when we recall our beloved dead: especially those we have lost in the past year. We say their names. We light candles. We hear bells echoing through the sanctuary. This year we will be...
