Northern Plains Anglican

Northern Plains Anglican

Just call me NPA

    • About NPA
    • I Feel the Light Again

      When last I blogged, I described my winter sun feeling. Actually, the lack of feeling as the very bright day star was all-kinds-of-seen but not-at-all felt through the frigid air. I likened my spiritual state to that; aware of God’s reality but not feeling his presence. During the last week of Advent, God graced me […]

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      northernplainsanglican

      December 29, 2022
      Bible, Church, Prayer
      Christian, Christianity, Holy Spirit, Spirituality
    • Shiny Happy Valley of the Shadow

      Jerry Seinfeld did some stand up in Sioux Falls a few years ago. He riffed on our habit of talking about the weather. So indulge me (I’ll get into the spiritual stuff too). We’re having some actual autumn here. That’s a thing for us because spring and fall are too often too short preludes to […]

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      northernplainsanglican

      November 2, 2022
      Prayer
      Christian, Christianity, Spirituality
    • …by his faith…

      I imagined that decades of Holocaust documentaries, dramas, books and my own visits to Dachau and Yad Vashem had me innoculated against strong emotional reactions to presentations about the Shoah. I was wrong. Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein present a jarring look at the Holocaust in a global and in particular American context. […]

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      northernplainsanglican

      October 4, 2022
      Bible, Culture
      Bible, Life Style, Politics, Spirituality
    • Location, Location, Location

      My dogs kept waking me up the other night. Maybe God appointed them to the task, because a fruitful time of reading and prayer ensued. What resulted was a stream of Biblical consciousness on Facebook. It started with awareness that Jesus washed his followers’ feet while knowing that the Father had given all things into […]

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      northernplainsanglican

      September 27, 2022
      Bible, Church, Jesus
      Bible Study, Christian, Jesus Christ
    • Was 9/11 the Last Sign of “Christian America”?

      The arguments fly back and forth about America as a “Christian nation.” On the right, it is an imagining of the past: an appeal for return to a once muscular moral order that, in the model of the Bible’s Book of Deuteronomy, brought national prosperity as the reward for obedience to standards revealed by God. […]

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      northernplainsanglican

      September 20, 2022
      Church, Culture, Jesus
      Christian, Christianity, Jesus Christ
    • Office Hours?

      The death of the Queen? Everybody’s covered that. 9/11? I’m working on some thoughts so maybe next time. Sooooo… Working at a Catholic hospital, there are some overtly Christian opportunities. Writing devotional pieces for employee email lists is one. This past weekend, one of mine showed up, so I share it with you here. Hope […]

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      northernplainsanglican

      September 13, 2022
      Bible, Jesus
      Bible Study, Christian, Jesus Christ, Life Style, Spirituality
    • Christmas in September

      Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.  (Luke 13:24) I work on Sundays and can’t get to services, but I do listen to recorded sermons when I’m able. I’ve been blessed by preachers opening up these hard verses. “Agonizing” to enter through […]

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      northernplainsanglican

      September 6, 2022
      Bible, Church, Hope, Jesus, Worship
      Bible, Hope, Jesus Christ, Music
    • DC Serves up Bovine Wine

      Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink, who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right! (Isaiah 5:22-23)… Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring, […]

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      northernplainsanglican

      August 29, 2022
      Bible, Culture, Worship
      Bible Study, Culture, Politics, USA
    • Shut the Front Door

      After hearing yesterday’s Gospel, which included Jesus’ imperative to, Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able (Luke 13:24), I bumped into a correlation in the ever scary (for clergy) Matthew 23, But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom […]

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      northernplainsanglican

      August 22, 2022
      Bible, Church, Jesus
      Bible, Bible Study, Christianity, Church, Clergy, Jesus
    • Shaky

      Not gonna write much this week and probably next. We have a family medical situation unfolding. I was scheduled to preach and celebrate a liturgy this coming Sunday but that’s scrubbed. I was working on a sermon from Hebrews 12:27-29, …the removal of things that are shaken—that is, things that have been made—in order that […]

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      northernplainsanglican

      August 16, 2022
      Bible, Hope, Prayer, Worship
      challenges, change, God, problems
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