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David Dragseth

David Dragseth is pastor of Lake Park Lutheran Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Sunday’s Coming

A dimly burning wick

Boston is dark in January. Very dark. At 5:30 p.m. light has completely abandoned the city. Sure, there is a kind of fake fluorescent light, a pale bluey glow, a TV light. But there is no authentic light, only illusion of it. And illusions only make the matter worse.
In the Lectionary

Sunday, January 9, 2011: Matthew 3:13-17

My college motto is vox clamantis in deserto, the voice of one crying out in the wilderness....
Sunday’s Coming

Muscle memory

For more commentary on this week's readings, see the Reflections on the Lectionary page, which includes Dragseth's curr...
In the Lectionary

Sunday, January 2, 2010: Jeremiah 31:7-14; Psalm 147:12-20; Ephesians 1:3-14; John 1:(1-9), 10-18

On the first morning of every new year, I take a three-foot-long saw with three-inch teeth, walk out onto Lake Michigan at 20 below in my sandals and swimsuit, hack a hole in the two-foot-thick ice...
Books

Holy highways

Lamenting the free-spirited nature of Gen-Xers, a monastic friend of mine once told his abbot that the...
Books

It takes practice

In my first call as a pastor, I inherited a confirmation program in which 25 teenagers would sit in a church basement with no windows for three hours weekly and silently fill out workbooks while a ...

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