Gretchen E. Ziegenhals

Gretchen E. Ziegenhals is managing director at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina.

Articles by Gretchen E. Ziegenhals

Blogging Toward Sunday

Seeing the ends of the earth

Isaiah 40:21–31

Jan 30, 2012 by Gretchen E. Ziegenhals

When our girls were still quite young, my husband Norm and I moved our family from our fast-paced life and work in Chicago to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where Norm had accepted a teaching position. Feeling a bit like Abraham and Sarah, we made a radical change of landscape.

Living by the Word

Sunday, February 5, 2012

1 Corinthians 9:16-23

Jan 24, 2012 by Gretchen E. Ziegenhals

Last summer we attended a family reunion in Alberta that commemorated my husband's family's 60 years in Canada. The weekend was filled with games, food and a worship service that included the first hymns that the German immigrant family had learned in English.

Blogging Toward Sunday

Who are the wisest prophets?

Deuteronomy 18:15–20

Jan 23, 2012 by Gretchen E. Ziegenhals

"The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you shall heed such a prophet." In an election year, this passage from Deuteronomy makes me feel slightly sick to my stomach.

Living by the Word

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Mark 1:21–28

Jan 17, 2012 by Gretchen E. Ziegenhals

My daughter was eating lunch with a friend at an inner-city diner when they saw a painfully thin young woman stagger down the center of street outside, her face and limbs contorted and flailing, her eyes rolled back into her head. Soon a police car pulled up.