Associate Pastor at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in St. Paul, a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Husband to Oby Ballinger. Progressive. Math nerd. Gustavus Adolphus College and Yale Divinity School alum.
The best solutions to the biggest challenges we face are collective solutions, where we all work together to do what’s best for our community as a whole–not each person doing what they want for themselves. … More Talking Trash: Why I’m Voting Yes for Saint Paul
The message today is not that if you only believe harder then you will make miracles happen. The message is simply this: Do the things you know to do. Work for justice. Practice mercy. Model compassion. Ordinary faith will do extraordinary things. … More Ordinary Faith Is Enough
The so-called “dishonest manager” isn’t someone who is evil. He just sees through the injustice of an economic system that values profits over the well-being of human life and of the earth itself–and he decides to flip the script. … More Flip the Script
Jesus intentionally turns convention on its head, disrupting the systems that good etiquette is designed to serve. He undermines the systems we’ve created to assign people to certain social positions and keep them in their places. … More A Place at the Table
When we learn to recognize that Christ dwells in all things, then the notion of clinging tightly to what is “ours” or defending what’s so important to us against an “invasion” or “replacement” all starts to sound a little silly. … More More Love, Less Fear
