“Sharing Stories, A Path to Spiritual Fitness”

Our Next Spiritual Fitness Gathering: Wednesday, March 24, 2010.  Noon to 1:00 at Oak Knoll Lutheran Church in Minnetonka, MN. (Bring your own lunch!)

The topic for our March Spiritual Fitness Gathering will  be: “Sharing Stories, A Path to Spiritual Fitness”.   The words “sharing” and “stories”  have so much depth [...]

“Spiritual Care: A Coordinated Effort”

Our Next Spiritual Fitness Gathering: Wednesday, February 24, 2010.  Noon to 1:00 at Oak Knoll Lutheran Church in Minnetonka, MN. (Bring your own lunch!)

The topic for our December 23, 2009 Spiritual Fitness Gathering will  be: “Spiritual Care: A Coordinated Effort”.   There is an abundance of Spiritual and Emotional Care resources available [...]

Our Next Spiritual Fitness Gathering: Wednesday, December 23, 2009.  Noon to 1:00 at Oak Knoll Lutheran Church in Minnetonka, MN. (Bring your own lunch!)

The topic for our December 23, 2009 Spiritual Fitness Gathering will  be: “New Light and New Life into a New Year”.   This hoilday season is a time of new beginnings.  We celebrate [...]

The last few days I’ve been working on a new logo for the ministry.  So far this is what I’ve come up with working in Microsoft Word.  My computer skills are somewhat limited, so there is not a color component, but with the help of my daughter and son I actually came up with a [...]

So how do I begin a post that is my first in several months.  I guess I just begin.  Some may have wondered about the recent absence of posts.  I received a few emails, phone calls and personal coments about the significance of February 15, 2009.  It took me awhile to realize it was the [...]

The following is the invocation Iwill give later this morning at the opening ceremonies of this year’s MCPA Executive Training Institute.

Dear God,

We give thanks today for the opportunity to gather in the spirit of public safety leadership.  We are all individuals with differing faiths, beliefs and convictions.  However, we come together this week with a [...]

One of the EPPD Chaplains, Father Tim Power gave me a wonderful gift at my retirement celebration, My Grandfathers Blessings by Rachael Naomi Remen, MD.

It is full of stories of inspiration and wisdom. This is the type of book that I want to share with people who are looking for a message to help them [...]

A good friend of mine sent me the following proverb yesterday. Because of his rather diverse and mixed faith background, an Agnostic Jew Raised in Catholic School (AJRCS for short) he felt it was important for me to provide some balance to my personal Christian perspectives. I agree. Public Safety Ministries is a ministry [...]

I just realized that anyone who has tried to send a message via “Contact Us” was unable to do so. Messages were not going through. I have top people, I mean top TOP people working on it (tops in my limited techie world anyway). My apologies, and if you have tried to “Contact Us” please [...]

I’m not big on New Years resolutions, but I am big on making changes in your fitness and health life. So here are some first steps to a healthy and fit life. I’ve said this before, almost daily to myself, but it is a simple plan that if done consistently will bring about remarkable change [...]

I woke at 4 this morning. I’m tired but can’t sleep. I spent about an hour trying to get back to sleep, watched the news a bit, looked at a couple of old movies, read a bit, but nothing worked. So I gave up and now I write.

It’s not surprising that I can’t sleep. It [...]

Dan Carlson is currently serving as Police Chief for the City of Eden Prairie Minnesota. He has announced his retirement from police service, effective January 2007, to pursue a second career in the ministry. His 25 year career in law enforcement and his passion for the concept of spiritual fitness training [...]

Yes, at some point I’ll need to spend some time raising money for the ministry, but this morning I had a great opportunity and a great experience raising something more important, awareness.  The mission of Public Safety Ministries is To Promote Spiritual Fitness in the Public Safety Professions.  There are three basic components to promoting [...]

This website is an outreach project of Public Safety Ministries. Is is intended to be an active and ever changing site that is updated on a daily basis. It utilizes a weblog format that encourages response to postings and other information shared.

Just like with physical fitness, the pursuit of spiritual fitness requires regular participation in a personalized exercise program [...]