Last month’s Lutheran Witness had a slate of articles that I was slightly shocked at. I want to explore some of that shock and some of the theology underlying it.
Here is a chart that basically spells out the problem (the chart is my compilation, pastors usually aren’t great at numbers and synodocrats don’t like publishing . . . → Read More: Rock-a-bye baby: A Theology of Children, Church and Family – post #1
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Kinda a “state of the union” address by the LCMS president. Here is the site I caught it on. I’m not really sure what to say about it. The good I would think is that he is passionate and smart. Two characteristics that even when you might disagree on some things makes you willing . . . → Read More: Interesting (at least to me) talk given by Pres. Harrison First, Teeeee-bowwwww! Don’t you just love it when a guy gets beat up for 4 hours and gets told he’s basically just above a slime mold and then that slime mold has the audacity to win ugly? Ok, now that football is out of the way. One of my favorite sarcastic sayings that has some . . . → Read More: Monday quarterbacking… That title is from this Mark Steyn article. It would be heartening if more presidential candidates understood the urgency. But there is a strange lack of boldness in most of their proposals. They, too, seem victims of that 1950 moment, and assumptions of its permanence. It is kind of funny – I’m constitutionally conservative. I’m a numbers . . . → Read More: A Strange Lack of Boldness… I could have guessed this. I sent in three questions to the CPH CEO in the ask the CEO anything. Two tough ones and a softball. They answered the softball. Here is the softball response to Biology has the famous Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. That is the way that science has developed to talk about living things. As we understand more about DNA, some surprising things have happened on those tree branches. But the start of it really goes back to the childhood car game – . . . → Read More: Separating Law and Gospel – a look-in at the ELCA Here is a fun site to check in on every once in a while. Three women with a bunch of kids. Our three are put to shame. The particular post is trying to think about where church ends and politics begins. That is where the title of this post comes from. . . . → Read More: Warning – This Man Has No Ecclesiology  Comments are closed  Uncategorized  church politics, law and gospel, lefthand kingdom, righthand kingdom, Two Kingdoms, una sancta |
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