Rev. Dr. Garbage Man

Reflections on Being Here

Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Find Me on Substack

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Hi Friends, It has been eight years since I hauled trash here in St. Paul, and I loved blogging about it here. Although I may still post her...
Friday, March 14, 2025

Ending Hunger?

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I hauled garbage for years. I saw in garbage cans the story of our food system. Poor neighborhoods discarding containers and scraps of highl...
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Softening in a World Hardening

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As the world around us seems to be hardening into "positions," "sides," "identities," "stances," and...
Saturday, April 1, 2023

And Now for the Rev. Dr. Part of the Garbageman

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It's been too long! Time to start blogging again. My trash hauling gig ended a few years back with the advent of a new policy in St. Pau...
Saturday, July 23, 2022

The Keys to the Kingdom

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In the summer of 1984 I spent time in Belfast, Northern Ireland. There I learned a great deal that my rather sheltered upbringing in Minneso...
Thursday, September 23, 2021

What is Terror?

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  What is terror? If we are old enough, we all remember just where we were and what we were doing on September 11th, 2001 when we got the ne...
Friday, October 2, 2020

We Who Are Homeless

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Dan came to our (Zion Lutheran Church's) food give-away and free meal program last year. He taught me the term, "homeless survivor....
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