Pastoral Meanderings

As I have said so often, Lutherans do not understand the Word the way evangelicals and Protestants do.  They see the Scripture basically a...

I was sent a copy of remarks by Synod Presidential candidate David Maier (apparently on Facebook which I am not on more than once every fe...

I have sort of given up picking on Presiding Bishop Schori.  She is too easy a target.  I have read several sermons by the PB.  Most of th...

From the AP : After setting off a storm of criticism from abortion rights groups upset that a Democratic president had sided with soci...

Read more at the entire report, “A Survey of Clergy and Their Views on Origins,” Here are the seven points of summary BioLogos gave fro...

HT to SimonPotamos and Anglandicus. .. Per Fidem Solam: Romans 3:24 in the Würzburg Glosses Romans 3 in the Würzburg Codex (f2r) I...

A good sanctification analogy: Michelangelo was asked the question how he could make a beautiful sculpture like his “Moses” out of a la...

There is in the Old South a surprising personality whose love includes translating old German Lutheran hymns that heretofore have remained o...

From First Thoughts... Now on to religion itself. The first thing to note is that the census “collected information on religious affil...

The problem with much Christian worship in the contemporary world, Catholic and Protestant alike, is not that it is too entertaining but ...

As we face the impending end of the significant American presence in Afghanistan, after it has already ended in Iraq, I am reminded of tho...

From the wisdom of William Weedon:  The Lutheran Divine Service makes no sense unless you are dying... a dying man among dying men... serv...

Desperate people do desperate things -- unthinking things, things in conflict with their values, things that had they had time to consider...

Thrivent members voted 72% to 28% to ditch Lutheran identity and become a generic fraternal (though fraternal pretty much in name only if yo...

Sermon for Pentecost 2, Proper 4C, preached on Sunday, June 2, 2013.     Sadly, too many sermons based on the Gospel for today will end...

There was an interesting article on Catholic World News for 2nd May. The headline caught my eye: “Typical new priest: 32-year-old cradle C...

Men and women speak a different language with the same words.  I got sent this by a half dozen blog followers and have seen it making the ro...

  “What would things look like if Satan really took control of a city? Over half a century ago, Presbyterian minister Donald Grey Barnhous...

Perhaps you want me to die of unrelieved boredom while you keep on talking.   From The Bondage of the Will , pg. 244 of Luther's Works...

In what we all knew would come in time has come relatively sooner than expected.  A gay ELCA clergyman and professor has been elected Bish...