Josh S, perhaps one of the first Lutheran bloggers ever, has written a great post that distinguishes Lutheranism from the religion of the megachurch.
Here’s how he wraps up:
You’ll never understand the Lutheran Church just by looking at it as “liturgical” (by the way, our liturgy beats anything Marty Haugen ever dreamed up) or at [...]
HT: Club For Growth
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The Environmental Working Group has released its Farm Subsidy Database updated with data from last year. Check out who benefits from over $5 billion in farm aid.
Nationally $2 billion went to corn, $1 billion went to wheat, and cotton got half a million dollars. In Ohio, corn is [...]
Fox News has posted the entirety of Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s speech at the National Press Club. He is opening a two-day seminar on “the African-American religious experience and its historical, theological and political context.”
One might think because I do not have the most darkly complected skin that I have no right to comment in this [...]
I didn’t realize until the count read 1498 that I was getting close to 1500. The archive number reads 1695, but that’s because faulty WordPress drafts and currently irrelevant LiveJournal notes were taking up numbers.
I’ve tried to do some things to make the blog easier to read and use. The latest thing is the individual [...]
I was supposed to teach today, but I was informed nobody was going to class today. I caught the 8:00am service again at Lutheran Church and School of Messiah in Grand Junction.
A skip through the radio dial at 7:30 caught the Lutheran Hour with a men’s choir singing “Salvation Unto Has Come.” Not a [...]
Bloomberg reports that oil prices are climbing in the wake of a pipeline shutdown in the United Kingdom and rebels attacking another pipeline in Nigeria. OPEC is keeping production down, and Iran wants oil to climb still northward.
Meanwhile NBC can burn up energy promoting a Green Week, part of which is advertising energy-efficient products like [...]
My coat was stolen in Grand Junction, but the investigation netted two thieves who stole two coats.
Last Wednesday I wore my coat to the HAL facility, but the day had warmed up so much I didn’t think about wearing it back to the hotel. I left it in the training room, and it was gone [...]
I was able to listen to the Candidate Call service from Concordia Theological Seminary — Fort Wayne. It was a beautiful Matins service even though it started at 6:40pm Eastern time.
There was an important statistic mentioned. Eighteen candidates from St. Louis and thirteen candidates from Fort Wayne, though they completed their M. Div. degrees, [...]
