Pastoral Meanderings

Be part of one of the most important decisions in our organization's hist...

This video makes being a Dad cooool!

I read a piece in the First Things On the Square blog and it had something to do with a brouhaha over the pictures of the previous clergy ...

If you have read here before, you already know my caution about the embrace of technology in worship.  Several pieces on blogs have spent ...

The role of the presidential pardon is an interesting one.  They are not without controversy and yet clearly it is within the power and prer...

As readers here know I have both lauded and objected to some of the words of Peter Leithart in his First Things offerings.  This time his ...

This just in. . .  A new study from the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature found that there are fewer ...

Often I get complaints about my practice of referring to the ROMAN Catholic Church, as opposed to simply the Catholic Church.  In part, m...

I must admit to some coveting of the kind of solid theological talk reported by friend Pr Will Weedon of his old Circuit Winkel.  Too ofte...

A few decades ago a little paperback was published by our church publisher that most wished had not been brought to market.  Oscar E. Feuc...

Sermon preached for Nicholas David Stiltner, 2007-2013, on Monday, January 7, 2013. Lessons: Jeremiah 31:15-17 - Isaiah 40:10-11 - Mark ...

Lutherans tend to be rather antinomian when it comes to what you do to prepare for the Divine Service, what you wear to church, fasting, o...

London, England, Jan 4, 2013 / 06:05 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Church of England has decided to permit gay male clergy in civil partnershi...

Sermon preached for the Epiphany of Our Lord, Sunday, January 6, 2013.     Every year pilgrims throng to Bethlehem but the first of the...

Borrowed from another blog : Here's what St. Utopia's looks like: it has a vibrant, good-looking pastor who, like Mary Poppins,...

I was tied up during the parade and when I got to finally look at the Lutheran Hour float... well, it was not what I had expected from years...

I chanced to have a conversation with someone who has sat in the pews of several congregations while each went through a period of deep and ...

Supposedly this comes from a Roman Catholic group seeking the ordination of women.  Parody or sincere?  I find it hard to take it seriously ...

I often take time in catechism class to ask questions about the world around those catechumens.  I find it interesting to know what it is ...