Happy Birthday, 7 Billionth Person!
Hello Blogging Colleagues! Since we last shared “screen time” together, many things have happened. We celebrated All Saints Day, Día de los Muertos, Halloween or All Hallows’ Eve and Reformation Sunday just to name a few. But wait– I’ve missed...
Not trash, but dinner
“All those delicious Brussels sprouts, rotting!” I griped to my brother about a neighbor’s garden. He shrugged and said, “Get used to it.” In rural western Washington, not everything gets harvested. Something is always left over. There may be no...
Of Bibles and peanut butter
One of the most influential experiences during my first trip toSouth Africa as a college student involved a missionary from the United States I’ll call Anna. When I first met Anna, a middle aged woman from the Pacific Northwest, she had...
Re-Joining the Journey.
Raise your hand if you knew that October 16 was World Food Day. Raise your hand if you, your congregation, your community or local news media did something to commemorate and remember the significance of that day. In case you...
Empathy and Christians
Almost everyone feels empathy when they see pictures of a hungry child. This is not a uniquely Christian emotion. However, the response to such empathy-producing situations should be what sets us apart: we act. This action space is where I...
Occupied
I present the following thoughts with a bit of fear and trepidation. I want to say up front that I am not taking sides and that the reason I am posting is to provoke reflection and conversation. I hope a...
The Music of the Future
In Wichita and many other communities across Kansas, more than a month of high temperatures and no rain has harmed crops and triggered water conservation efforts. The swimming pool in my Holiday Inn is closed. There’s no drain plug in...
Carp, please?
Greetings Fellow Hunger Rumblings Blog Followers, It’s been a while, but if you sift back through the records, you’ll find some old posts by me, Mikka. Since my time as an intern with ELCA World Hunger, I’ve finished college and...
At long last…
It has been quite the eventful summer! A PhD in May (I’m that much smarter now, which means you should be even more skeptical of my claims), a move in June, a baby in July (yes, the two are related,...
The time is now!
The time is now! That’s what we keep saying about the ELCA Malaria Campaign. The ELCA is proud to be a part of a global movement, a movement that has been picking up speed for the past ten years. At...