Stress Testing the Season
December 18, 2025 | Jim Angehr
Try this one on for size: a pastor’s experience of a Christmas Eve service as a proxy for how Christmas may feel to all of us. I’ve told people this before––and please keep your holy water nearby if this sounds impious to...
Beginnings and Endings
December 11, 2025 | Jim Angehr
Sometimes memories can be happy and sad at the same time. I’m thinking about my mom, who passed away three years ago in November––which means that my family is coming up on our third Christmas without her. The...
A Messiah for the Rest of Us
December 4, 2025 | Jim Angehr
Picture it like scenes from an Italian restaurant, only it’s not a restaurant, and we’re not Italian. Instead, here’s a scene from the Angehr home, stardate 11/29/25, high noon. It’s the Saturday after Thanksgiving...
For Everything, There is a...
April 17, 2025 | Jim Angehr
I was talking to someone recently about why at Liberti Collingswood we practice the annual liturgical calendar of the church. I don’t think that the Bible would mandate that we do, I replied, but at the same time, in my experience...
Only Ashes to Ashes?
April 3, 2025 | Jim Angehr
I hope that Lent is rumbling along well for everyone! I’m checking in here with a Lenten-tinged philosophical/apologetical thought. I’m just back home from the last, all day pastoral cohort of the ministry year for the Liberti...