Len Hjalmarson

It’s coming! Midlife crisis! I am among the older of the millennial generation, and here we are. I also happen to be a pastor. So, I am staring down the barrel of the looming midlife crisis along with the holy burden of caring for souls entrusted…

In the spring of 1980, I worked in the fishing industry off Stuart Island, Washington State. My first day of training was eye-opening. I had previously thought of the ocean as a large, predictable body of water. However, I soon found myself…

Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American essayist and lecturer, was quoted as saying, “ ‘I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.’ ” Emerson complained that the preacher in question had never learned to convert life…

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

a time to be born, and a time to die;

a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;

a time to kill, and a time to…