Messenger (Page 36)

PJ’s Page! A few weeks ago we put this message on our reader board along the Greenwood Ave. side of the building. I thought it was a clever play on words. I also thought that, given the vitriolic nature of some of what is said in the name of “the church”, it was a helpful reminder to us all to speak and act with love rather than hate. I hoped that people…

PJ’s Page! In a recent editorial in The Lutheran Pastor Peter Marty writes of what Sunday mornings are like in his home. He tells of how he sets three alarm clocks, so he, as pastor, will not be late for church. Of the way the very act of going to church is often inconvenient for his family. And then he writes of the ways it can be inconvenient for others as well.…

PJ’s Page Is it just me, or do the months during an election year seem to have more days in them? More opportunities for the mudslinging, partisan rhetoric that has, unfortunately, become the hallmark of political campaigning. It’s only mid-summer and already I have grown weary of the talk shows on television and radio, as well as the campaign signs and bumper…