For 19 days I stayed at the Comfort Inn in Brighton, CO. The nearest Holiday Inn was over a half hour away, so I thought I would try something closer. I do have a membership in the Choice Hotels frequent stay program, but one strike against that program is that the points expire. Guess I [...]
I had the opportunity to worship at Peace With Christ this morning. The service was LSB Divine Service I with a substituted offertory. Because the three-year lectionary (PDF) uses Luke 1:1-13 for the Gospel reading, we got to sing all nine verses of LSB 766, “Our Father Who from Heaven Above.” There was an interesting [...]
Just before beginning studies at Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Coach at Prepare Ye has hosted the 55th edition of the Lutheran Carnival. Samuel Simon Schmucker would have made an interesting Lutheran to know.
Thanks, Coach, for putting it together.
$286 billion of your present and future tax dollars would be distributed to studying Chesapeake Bay, advocating healthy snacks in schools, increasing food stamps, seizing more land for habitat preservation, labeling foreign food, and of course subsidizing farmer underproduction, if the Farm Bill passed by the House were to be signed by the President. President [...]
HT: Chronicle of the Conspiracy
Mitt Romney’s signing of universal health care in Massachusetts is a big reason why I would seriously consider voting for someone else. The Wall Street Journal reports that the state is now facing a critical shortage of primary care physicians.
A principal reason: too little money for too much work. Median [...]
I’ve mixed feelings about the news today. 2004 and 2005’s fantasy football stud Priest Holmes is considereing a return to Kansas City after sitting out 2006 recovering from hip surgery. Since Holmes left, Larry Johnson has become the starter and did well for KC last year.
I’m all for the return of the Priest, just [...]
AP reports:
In what is being called a “wrongful birth” case, a jury awarded more than $21 million to a couple who claimed a doctor misdiagnosed a severe birth defect in their son, leading them to have a second child with similar problems.
(skipping)
Had the disorder been correctly diagnosed, a test would have indicated whether the couple’s [...]
An opinion in USA Today by Mary Zeiss Strange posits that Martin Luther would have supported homosexuality today because he was such a revolutionary. The American Spectator ties that article with efforts in the ELCA to accept homosexuality.
To say Luther was a revolutionary completely ignores the context of what Luther was struggling against. Luther felt [...]
