It is early Easter morning of my growing up years.  It is a habit of my temperament, which needs feeding with considerable solitude, to lie awake in the purple and […]

  A sermon preached for the Feast of Mary and Martha Luke 10: 38 – 42   “Plenty good room, Plenty good room, Plenty good room in my Father’s Kingdom, […]

A sermon preached for the 4th Sunday of Pentecost “Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me.”  –  Matthew 10:40 It was the […]

Gonna put on my long white robeDown by the riverside, down by the riverside, down by the riversideGonna put on my long white robeDown by the riversideAnd study war no […]

 On a clear, crisp mid-September day in 1976, I am baking bread at the kitchen counter when the phone rings. It is our parents calling from the midst of the […]

It is February 6th, 2005, 6:30 a.m. Pacific Time.  It is still dark as we arrive at LAX, weary with the weight of leaving.  We are traveling home with Wes’ […]

It is 1951, and summer has come to a steady, hot, quiet hum late in August.  A healthy amount of boredom in the air begins to let the summer end, […]

School Reflection Circa 1952 by The Reverend Paula Lawrence-Wehmiller For Teacher Anna Sondack It is the fall of 1952 and I am in second grade. One hour over bumpy, winding […]

The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 29, 2000, by Art Carey When you ask the Rev. Paula Lawrence Wehmiller a question, you don’t get an answer, you get a story. Pastor Paula […]

The Lutheran Theological Seminary At Philadelphia, April 20, 2004 Professor Gordon Lathrop would have said yesterday’s gathering of liturgical scholars at LTSP was to the glory of God, rather than […]