Waconia Faith

Return from Sabbatical: I am not the center that needs to hold

Pastor Adam welcomes back Pastor Katie Jorgensen to reflect on her Sabbatical as she prepares to return to the Faith Lutheran community.

July in Arizona: Loving the Larger Church

Pastor Adam welcomes 19-year-old Matthias Bergstrom to the show to share about how he became a delegate to the 2025 ELCA Churchwide Assembly in Phoenix, and why he’s excited to do church business.

How Pastors are Made.

Pastor Adam and Shane Marcus discuss the shift from Youth Minister to Pastoral Associate.

Death/Resurrection: Care for the Dead

Pastor Adam welcomes Dr. Cody Sanders to the show to talk about his book Corpse Care: Ethics of Tending to the Dead.  Notes: Corpse Care: Ethics for Tending the Dead by Cody J. Sanders, Mikeal C. Parsons Corpse Care relates the history of death care in the U.S. to craft robust, constructive, practical ethics for tending the dead. It specifically relates corpse care to economic, environmental, and pastoral concerns. Death and the treatment of the dead body loom large in our collective, cultural consciousness. The authors explore the materiality and meaning of the dead body and the living's relationship to it. All the biggest questions facing the planetary human community relate in one way or another to the corpse. Surprisingly, Christian communities are largely missing in the discussion of the dead, having abdicated the historic role in care for the dead to the funeral industry. Christianity has stopped its reflection about the body once that body no longer bears life. Corpse Care stakes a claim that the fact of embodiment, this incarnational truth, this process of our bodily becoming, is a practical, ethical, and theological necessity. Publisher: Fortress Press (January 3, 2023)

Death/Resurrection: Death, Dying, and Doing It Well

Pastor Adam welcomes Pastor Katie to the show to talk about the Death, Dying, and Doing It Well class she's hosting at Faith. A featured call-in guest, Pastor Paul Palumbo joins the conversation to discuss commendation of dying.