Zumbro Current

Beyond the Boundaries: Faith, Sexuality and Who Belongs--Pastor Rob Zahn sits down with Dr. Philip Quanbeck II, Emeritus Professor of Religion at Augsburg University, and Josh Blauert, Zumbro's Music Associate, to unpack the ELCA’s 2009 Social Statement--Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust statement, which explores sexuality, Scripture, changing perspectives, and the tension between tradition and progress. The conversation challenges us to listen to lived experiences, embrace what we don’t yet understand, and ask what it really means to love our neighbors.

Judges 11: Samson--Pastor Rob Zahn wraps up the Book of Judges with Samson’s story and a powerful reminder that even in our darkest moments, God is still present—and there is always hope.

Caring for Creation: Hope & Action--Pastor Rob Zahn sits down with Dr. Philip Quanbeck II, Emeritus Professor of Religion at Augsburg University, to explore what caring for creation has to do with faith—and how the ELCA’s teaching on creation, climate change, and justice calls the church to move from awareness to action without losing hope.

Book of Judges: Izban, Elon, and Abdon
Pastor Rob Zahn shares a short weekly devotional about 12 different judges through the Bible's most violent book: The Book of Judges. Watch the pattern turn: people forget God, things fall apart, they cry out, God raises a rescuer — then they forget again, each time worse. Not polished superheroes. Messy, unlikely people God uses to rescue.

“Freed in Christ…But Still Learning”--Pastor Rob Zahn sits down with Dr. Philip Quanbeck II, Emeritus Professor of Religion, Augsburg University, to take a look at the ELCA’s 1993 statement on race, ethnicity, and culture—and why its call to confront racism remains an unfinished conversation.

Book of Judges: Jepthah
Pastor Rob Zahn shares a short weekly devotional about 12 different judges through the Bible's most violent book: The Book of Judges. Watch the pattern turn: people forget God, things fall apart, they cry out, God raises a rescuer — then they forget again, each time worse. Not polished superheroes. Messy, unlikely people God uses to rescue.

Jesus is Lord. Caesar (The Government) is Not. What does the ELCA’s Faith and Civic Life: Seeking the Well-being of All social statement have to say about faith, politics, and the world we live in right now? Pastor Rob Zahn sits down with Dr. Philip Quanbeck II, Emeritus Professor of Religion, Augsburg University, for a wide-ranging—and sometimes provocative—conversation about Jesus and Caesar, Christian nationalism, political power, justice, and the role of Christians in public life. What did “Jesus is Lord” mean in the Roman Empire, and what might it mean in America today? It’s a conversation about faith, civic life, and what it means to seek the well-being of all.

Book of Judges: Jair
Pastor Rob Zahn shares a short weekly devotional about 12 different judges through the Bible's most violent book: The Book of Judges. Watch the pattern turn: people forget God, things fall apart, they cry out, God raises a rescuer — then they forget again, each time worse. Not polished superheroes. Messy, unlikely people God uses to rescue.

Mumford's Son: 3
A detour from Judges: what can Mumford & Sons teach us about faith outside the walls of the church? From a stadium full of people singing, to love for the other, to a serendipitous connection to Pastor Rob's book — a meditation on doubt, belief, and where the honest stuff actually shows up.

Mumford's Son
A detour from Judges: what can Mumford & Sons teach us about faith outside the walls of the church? From a stadium full of people singing, to love for the other, to a serendipitous connection to Pastor Rob's book — a meditation on doubt, belief, and where the honest stuff actually shows up.