Pastoral Meanderings

Sermon for Ash Wednesday, preached on Wednesday, February 13, 2013.     Some enjoy sermon series on sins, especially specific sins.  Pe...

Here are some reasons, explicated, that might shed some light on the vanishing youth in our churches...   I highly recommend this post which...

We have lived with the three year lectionary for a couple of generations and not without controversy.  I have acquaintances who believe I ...

The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes , Political Humor & Satire Blog , Video Archive Stephen Colbert is no...

Ancient Faith Radio, the voice of Orthodoxy, is to be commended for making programs such as this available. Constantine, Eusebius, and t...

Over the years I have grown very weary of authors who juxtapose one Scripture against another or one voice of Scripture against another.  ...

Good print resources for children are not always available and, when they are, they deserve to made known. I commend to you a book on hy...

The ease and comfort so many churches have with the transformation of worship into the glorification of the people, their feelings, their pr...

Read this on a news feed.President Barack Obama addressed the NARAL Pro-Choice America’s annual dinner on Tuesday, Feb. 5, saying in his v...

Right next to the condom dispensing machines, it seems the government is poised to allow a vending machine to dispense the morning after p...

O God, you desire not the death of sinners, but rather that they turn from their wickedness and live. We implore You to have compassion...

Once again I was beat out -- although I never saw this one coming.  It seems Mr. Clinton's redemption is complete and now all his sins...

The Board of Regents has called Dr. Carl Fickenscher of Fort Wayne, IN, to the position of  President at Concordia Lutheran Seminary. 

Sermon preached for the Transfiguration of our Lord, Sunday, February 10, 2013.     Though we like to think we are well connected, most...

Pr Christopher Hall writes on his blog (This Side of the Pulpit) of a complaint he received (perhaps the first of substance in his 8 mon...

I saw Les Miserables a month ago or so and found it a wonderful film, rich with heroic and religious themes, built upon the idea of redem...

Sermon preached for Epiphany IV on Sunday, February 3, 2013.     What good is religion when you cannot get God to do what you want?  Li...

Now that the Obama administration has put forth another so-called compromise to accommodate objections about the freedom of religion viola...

Sadly, many of my generation have left a mixed up mess of worship to our children and grandchildren.  We were the ones who thought the mus...