What do we need to worship here at Ladue Chapel? If we wanted to have worship exactly the way we like it—what would we need?Well, we need pastors. We need David. We might need a guest musician or two....  Read More

I am not often aware of my hands. If I want to grab something, I do. If I need to type, text, or handwrite, I can. Though, every winter my hands make themselves very known with chapped knuckles, and p...  Read More

A couple of exegetical points before I read this story from Matthew’s gospel: first, this miracle story is the only one that is in all four gospels. That should alert us to the value placed on it by t...  Read More

The Vietnamese Zen master, Thich Nhat Hanh writes this about being fully alive in the present moment.  “To return to the present is to be in contact with life.  Life can be found only in the present m...  Read More

Getting to Know You: Theo Wedemeyer Wesley Theodore “Theo” Wedemeyer could be the poster child for lifelong members at Ladue Chapel. Theo is a “cradle Presbyterian,” thanks to his parents, Susan and D...  Read More

One of my favorite cartoons is an old Peanuts one in which Lucy is disgusted with Charlie Brown and finally declares “Charlie Brown, you are the crabgrass of life!” You know, that green grass-like stu...  Read More

“One hundred bottles of beer on the wall, one hundred bottles of beer…” Everyone of a certain age has either sung it or suffered through it at some time in their lives.  Back in the day, joining in th...  Read More

June 28, 2026  Fifth Sunday after PentecostLadue Chapel Presbyterian ChurchExodus 17:1-7“The Long Way Around”Douglas T. King  Moses named the place Massah and Meribah which means quarrel and test.  I ...  Read More

I know that Doug and many other preachers do not follow the lectionary. But for me, especially when I was preaching every Sunday, I found the lectionary a useful discipline. And relevant for today, fo...  Read More

Years ago my friend Dean Thompson told me the story of his visit with a parishioner of his, a professor from Cal Tech.  The man in the hospital was dying of AIDS.  He asked Dean to rehearse his faith ...  Read More

There is a wonderful, perhaps apocryphal, story among preachers that crystallizes the way in which we sometimes misuse scripture in our preaching.  It is about a preacher who reads a text about Paul t...  Read More

I appreciated Doug’s comments about Trinity in this week’s Chapel Bell. And while I don’t want to focus on the theological concept today, I do want us to keep in mind one aspect of Trinity – that of t...  Read More