Pastoral Meanderings

Sermon for the Transfiguration of Our Lord (B), preached on Sunday, February 11, 2024. No one would expect the disciples to fully get who J...

Though Christianity is often tagged as the boogeyman behind the ills of the modern world, many have undertaken to show that this is a false ...

Borrowed from the Rev. Stephen Preus and the LCMS website. To consider Christ’s glorious Tra...

The Methodist Church of Great Britain has called on its ministers, deacons, and elders to stop using offensive terminology such as “husband”...

It was reported that the prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, commenting on the ...

Now that the photographers and press people have moved on to other things, it might be worth a quick look at what was accomplished when 50 o...

The majority of men in every generation, even those who, as it is described, devote themselves to thinking, live and die under the impressio...

Absenteeism from school is hardly new nor is it only a problem today.  That said, absenteeism in public schools is becoming chronic, affecti...

Sermon preached on the Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany (B), on Sunday, February 4, 2024. Though we tend to look for the big point in Jesus’...

We were told over and over again.  Follow the science.  If it is about the science, then the science is concerning.  According to one of the...

I got a lengthy email from a reader who insisted that I paid far too much attention to Rome and the Pope and that if I was really a Lutheran...

If you have the stomach for it, you can tun into a recent BBC interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci, including his “complicated” relationship w...

The Presentation of Our Lord and the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary fall on the fortieth day of Christmas.  So now you have my perm...

Registration is now open for the 2024 Institute on Liturgy, Preaching and Church Music on July 9-12, 2024, at Concordia University, Nebrask...

 Now is the time to register!

Watching a documentary of sorts on the Edwardian era and in particular with table settings and manners, the narrator commented that the rule...

Until modern times hardly anyone would have thought death was kind.  If anything, the portrayal of death was always as a dark and unwelcome ...

Sermon for the Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany (B), preached on Sunday, January 28, 2024. Authority the word or concept has lost some of it...

Though we live in a Christian world in which Christians have become embarrassed by such things as the masculine names for God made known to ...