Pastoral Meanderings

While perusing other blogs, I see that there is a little discussion of the various ways to view doctrine -- from the propositional truths we...

According to sources, here are the causes and numbers of deaths in America attributed to those causes: Heart disease: 647,457 Cancer: 599,1...

It is a celebrated legacy that perhaps defines how most know Justice Potter Stewart.  He could not define pornography but he insisted "...

Sermon for Pentecost 19, Proper 23A, preached on Sunday, October 11, 2020.      Most of us are universalists at heart.  We think that if God...

 I did not say it.  I wish I had.  But it is a more than a pithy saying.  It embodies great truth. It is not possible to be Catholic without...

There are those who view the interruption of the COVID shut down of churches and church life to be a positive thing, overall.  It is, in the...

A million years ago when I was off to one conference or meeting, I came home with a pocket full of goodies.  Pens, pencils, pads, candies, t...

During this election season there have been many who insisted they could not bring themselves to approve of Trump the man even though they w...

In conversation with a small parish growing smaller, I suggested that the parish was dying and the day might come someone will turn out the ...

No less than Dr. Albert Mohler confirmed it.   Luther ever encountered a Baptist.   I wish he had.  Unfortunately, Luther was too early and ...

Sermon for the 18th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 22A, preached on Sunday, October 4, 2020, by the Rev. Daniel M. Ulrich.   Rejection is a ...

Though sometimes people say that even this or that is too much for God, the business of prayer is the speaking of lost causes in the Name of...

Holiness is more typically defined in terms of what you do not do.  Holy people do not. . . well, you fill in the blank since that is what h...

The assault on the family is well documented and needs no explanation or outline from me.  It may be focused on the definition of who may ma...

Part of the reason that the liturgy has fallen into disfavor among some who, by their tradition, should be liturgical, is that ignorance o...

Protestants have, perhaps, learned something from Rome in this COVID crisis.  For Rome the physical reception of the Sacrament is not requir...

Our marketing gurus who tell us what we are doing wrong and what we need to do right in order to grow God's Church for Him have listened...