Waconia Faith

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

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.

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

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)

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.

Pastor Adam welcomes his college-aged daughters to the show to reflect on the challenge of talking about the season’s best-known saint. The episode also features insights from Kristin Johnson, church member, and Joy White, Pastor Adam's mother.

Pastor Adam welcomes guests Ross Hansen and Scott Ellingson to share how making lefse and sausage in a barn helps meet our neighbors' needs throughout the year.

Pastor Adam and guest LeaAnn Burau discuss St. Lucia and the ways her feast day has been celebrated at Faith Lutheran.

Pastor Adam and guest Christine Fenner get our listeners ready for the Waconia Tree Lighting in City Square park as they unpack this local tradition.

Pastor Adam and guest Al Norby, Executive Director of Love Inc., talk about Thanksgiving and Love Inc.’s Turkey Delivery Ministry.

Pastor Adam and guest Tim Lobby explore the intersections of Faith and Politics they encountered during the 2024 Faith Lutheran Choir Tour in Germany.

Pastor Adam and guest Kirsten Wallace explore the possibility of political cooperation, and the vocation of Government while reflecting on Kirsten's experience of working on water policy

Pastor Adam and guest Jesse Bergstrom discuss the reality of being a local elected official. They also explore ways in which an understanding of Christian vocation can inform political service.

Pastor Adam and guest Diane Hamilton discuss Mom’s Connect and The Space Between Us by Sarah Bauer Anderson.