Pastoral Meanderings

Sermon for the Baptism of Our Lord, preached on Sunday, January 12, 2020, by the Rev. Daniel M. Ulrich. And behold, a voice from hea...

I read once that history is written by the victors.  While this is obviously true, that does not necessarily mean that such history is nec...

Author Evelyn Waugh saw the culture and the world around us as an effective tool to use to hide from the ultimate realities of life.  Not ...

According to an article in Christianity Today online , income brackets which were once unrelated to church attendance are now indicators of ...

I will try again to allow comments.  All comments will be moderated.  This means that comments will not appear immediately but will await ...

Okay, we all use Wikipedia.  So don't go putting your nose in the air like you have never looked up something in its online pages.  In...

Would that all Christians would be united in their condemnation of abortion.  They are not.  In fact, some are more than just silent -- or...

Of course the world is enamored with Mr. Rogers and with Tom Hanks who played him.  And of course there is much laudable about his children...

F uller Theological Seminary is now facing a Title IX lawsuit from a former student, a student who had been expelled from Fuller because ...

So the Pope went off script.  Again.  No surprise.  Nor was what he said that much of a surprise. Setting aside his prepared text, Pope ...

Sermon for the Epiphany of our Lord, Observed, preached on Sunday, January 5, 2020, by the Rev. Daniel M. Ulrich. We pray: O God, lea...

Copied from another website.  My only purpose is to stir the pot a bit.   In regard to the Marian doctrine of the Reformers, we have a...

On this day we recall the visit of the Magi to the Christchild.  The Magi, also called Wise Men, were the pilgrims “from the East” who fol...

Reading through the stack I came across a good line.  An author was raising questions about the Pope's reorganization of the Vatican d...

We live at a time in which the enlightened in today’s society know how to be casual and even flippant about serious things, but treats as ...

According to projections from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s (ELCA) Office of Research and Evaluation, the whole denomination...