Reflections by Pastor Doug Kings For this "vacation week" I am sharing a post from early in my ministry at Gloria Dei. Its relevance hasn't diminished in the 4+ years…
Reflections by Pastor Doug Kings Our online pandemic worship recordings concluded with a music video. At first, they were of traditional religious music, but we branched out as time went…
Reflections by Pastor Doug Kings A number of years ago, I came across a famous quote of the great Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Jung (1876-1961). Just recently, however, I found a…
Reflections by Pastor Doug Kings The topic at the next-to-last meeting of our current book discussion series was life after death. We pondered what, if anything, do we imagine our…
Reflections by Pastor Doug Kings “What’s going to happen to us?” That’s the question pondered by New York Times science reporter, Dennis Overbye, in his recent essay, “Who Will Have…
Reflections by Pastor Doug Kings I wrote this piece about ten years ago, but it dovetails well with last week’s Reflections. Today, as then, we need to listen to and…
Reflections by Pastor Doug Kings A book group member shared with me a recent hopeful sounding article from The Wall Street Journal: “The Surprising Surge of Faith Among Young People.” The article…
Reflections by Pastor Doug Kings This is the last of my Reflections series on the difficulties we have as modern people reading the ancient stories of Holy Week and Easter.…
Reflections by Pastor Doug Kings This is another in my Reflections series on the modern-day challenges of making sense of the Holy Week and Easter stories in the gospels. Here…
Reflections by Pastor Doug Kings This is the third in a series of Reflections I began developing several years ago about Holy Week and Easter. This one deals with the…
Reflections by Pastor Doug Kings This is the second in my series of Reflections on the contemporary problems and possibilities of the Holy Week and Easter stories and traditions. ELCA…
Reflections by Pastor Doug Kings Palm Sunday is a little over a week away. It is the start of Holy Week, followed by Easter. While central to Christianity, the meaning…
Reflections by Pastor Doug Kings In my sermon last Sunday, I shared a quote which is one of the most succinct descriptions I’ve found of the church’s dilemma and how…
Reflections by Pastor Doug Kings In the latest issue of Living Lutheran, the magazine of the ELCA, the editor announced that at the end of the year it will cease printing…
Reflections by Pastor Doug Kings Twenty-five years ago this spring, a book was published which marked a turning point in my ministry, and my life. The book was Why Christianity Must…
Reflections by Pastor Doug Kings Last weekend we had a mini-holocaust behind our house. We live at one end of a small lake. We’ve been told it is spring fed…
Reflections by Pastor Doug Kings At our last book group session, we talked about the dramatic shifts that have occurred in theology, Bible interpretation, and world view from ancient and…
Reflections by Pastor Doug Kings Our Zoom book group has concluded its discussion of Part 1 of Should I Stay Christian? by Brian McLaren. Each of this section’s chapters give…