After a long hiatus, I had a couple of publications drop this week. All of my online publications going back to 2018 are available in the Press and Publications tab. Enjoy! For the Elm Ensemble: More Than We Have Imagined: When God Is Like a Mother For the Women of the ELCA's Bold Cafe: Practices… Continue reading First Time in Awhile: New Additions to the Publications Tab
A Writer’s Lent
I am terrible at keeping habits, even “bad” ones! I just cannot keep doing the same thing multiple days in a row, whether it is framed as a program, a spiritual discipline, or a healthy habit. This is good news for my bad habits, because those will pass away soon enough, but not great for… Continue reading A Writer’s Lent
En-Foosed
School, work, Foosball ... but not always in that order. Since my husband picked up a Foosball table from the curb, where someone else in our new hometown had put it out for the “large items” garbage pick-up day, playing Foosball together has become a staple of our daily routine. I am by far the… Continue reading En-Foosed
A Sermon on Mary and Elizabeth
Gospel: Luke 1:39-55 Women. Black Americans. Asian or Latinx immigrants to this country, or their children. Indigenous, Native American people who, yes, still live here. LGBTQ+ individuals. Any of these folks, were they preaching before you today, would make you deeply uncomfortable. So I’d better do my part for the only one of those marginalized… Continue reading A Sermon on Mary and Elizabeth
A Bible Study about Relational Metaphors for God
Since August, The Faith+Leader, of which I am the editor, has focused on a monthly theme. In December 2021, the theme is "Relationships and Ministry" and our posts will include content about a church leader's closest family relationships all the way to relationally reaching out to inactive members. I recruit a Bible study post to… Continue reading A Bible Study about Relational Metaphors for God
What a “Father” God Looks Like to Me
My highest “score” on spiritual gift inventories is always the gift of “faith.” That’s seems a little silly; don’t we all have that gift? In my case, the spiritual gift of faith shows up in my decision-making: I trust God and act on that trust with strong confidence. Why am I the way I am?… Continue reading What a “Father” God Looks Like to Me
Game-ified
We have gone all-virtual in our household. My husband is using his medical degree to take care of patients virtually via a cutting edge app. I recruit and edit written resources for church leaders with a team that runs online courses, spread out geographically from Tennessee to Texas to Utah. Both of our kids are… Continue reading Game-ified
Doing New Things: What I’m Learning from Pool Maintenance
I’ve already promised my husband that the moment he is here to stay, pool maintenance becomes his responsibility. I never pictured myself as a person with the means to have a pool, nor does it make sense with our 1904 home, but there it is: an in-ground pool put in decades ago. And our kids… Continue reading Doing New Things: What I’m Learning from Pool Maintenance
The Story of the Blue House
It was late January 2021, after the inauguration but still in the depths of winter. We had received the DVD in the mail from Netflix of the new live action movie Mulan. Stefan and our oldest daughter watched it together Friday evening, but the younger one thought she might be scared, so she and I… Continue reading The Story of the Blue House
Leap-frogging
Leap-frogging technologies are a theme in our household conversations these days. When large swaths of people previously did not have access to certain improvements to quality of life, and a new way of creating access is developed to remove the barriers, people who never could get services in the first wave suddenly join the network… Continue reading Leap-frogging
Lee Ann M. Pomrenke 