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Pastor Nancy Switzler
Apr 17, 20243 min read
Everything Isn't Terrible!: Chapters 2 & 3
The overarching goal of this book is providing tools to help us deal with those things that stress us out…those things to make us...
Pastor Nancy Switzler
Mar 19, 20242 min read
Everything Isn't Terrible! Chapter 1
This is part 2 of a series on Dr. Kathleen Smith's book "Everything isn't Terrible!"
Pastor Nancy Switzler
Mar 14, 20242 min read
Everything isn't Terrible!: An Introduction
Hello everyone, Some of you may remember me saying that I am participating in the Systems Academy at ELCA headquarters (Chicago). In this...
Pastor Nancy Switzler
Feb 20, 20241 min read
Final Post on "How to Lead When you Don't Know Where you Are Going."
Dear Friends, Thank you for reading my thoughts as they relate to the book, “How to Lead…” I am hoping that you are thinking about your...
Pastor Nancy Switzler
Feb 20, 20243 min read
A Tale of Two Crosses
Pastor Nancy continues her series on Susan Beaumont's book "How to Lead when you Don't know where you are going."


Pastor Nancy Switzler
Feb 20, 20243 min read
Lessons in Discernment
Pastor Nancy continues to share thoughts on Susan Beaumont's book "How to lead when you don't know where you are going"
Pastor Nancy Switzler
Jan 23, 20241 min read
Tending to the Soul of the Institution
Pastor Nancy is continuing to share from Susan Beaumont’s, “How to Lead When You Don’t Know Where You’re Going: Leading in Transition"
Pastor Nancy Switzler
Jan 16, 20243 min read
Thoughts on "How To Lead When You Don't Know Where You Are Going"
Pastor Nancy continues to share ideas from Susan Beaumont’s, “How to Lead When You Don’t Know Where You’re Going: Leading in Liminal Season"
Sue Christensen
Aug 22, 20231 min read
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Apr 26, 20232 min read
The Spirituality of Money
Money is activating. Like super emotionally activating. I just wrote that in a text to someone trying to get their finances and credit...


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Jan 3, 20232 min read
12 Days of Christmas (Carols) Day Something More: Do You Hear What I Hear? Songs of Protest
Apparently Christmas carols are peace and anti-war songs far more frequently than I could have possibly imagined just a few days ago. I...


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Jan 2, 20231 min read
12 Days of Christmas (Carols) Day Something
Glo-oooooooooooooooooooooo ria Is there a song more fun to sing in church? Inhale and then belt it out. It reminds me of being at a...


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Dec 31, 20224 min read
12 Days of Christmas (Carols) -- A Special New Year's Eve Holy Night Reflection
This is adapted from my 2021’s Christmas Eve sermon. I have adapted it for New Year’s Eve 2022. A couple of nights ago I was struggling...


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Dec 30, 20222 min read
12 Days of Christmas (Carols) -- "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"
I think the greatest Christmas carols are born of a brutiful concoction of anguish and hope. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “I Heard the...


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Dec 29, 20223 min read
12 Days of Christmas (Carols) - Day 5 "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear"
There’s a mood to so many Christmas carols and songs that’s a bit complicated to name. There’s like this expectation of good times and...


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Dec 28, 20222 min read
12 Days of Christmas (Carols) -- Needing that "Joyful" on a Wednesday
It’s Wednesday. And it's a Wednesday of Wednesdays. A few days past the first day of Christmas. Coffee alone won’t pick me up. These days...


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Dec 27, 20221 min read
12 Days of Christmas (Carols) Day 3 -- While Shepherds Watched Their Flock
This carol has deeply grown on me the last few years. Ever since studying the cultural relevance of shepherds, their economic hardships,...


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Dec 27, 20221 min read
12 Days of Christmas (Carols) Day 2
“Away in a manger no crib for the babe…” With these soft and gentle words we are reminded that there was no room for the Holy Family as...


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Dec 25, 20221 min read
12 Days of Christmas (Carols): Day 1 "Hark the Herald Angels Sing"
A mere year into what some have called a conversion (or perhaps better phrased, a fresh new love of God) Charles Wesley (founder of the...


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May 25, 20223 min read
Does God Really Hate Thoughts and Prayers?
14 kids and one teacher. No, 15 kids and one teacher. No, 18 kids....killed. The news kept flashing across my computer screen during an...
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