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Archive for the 'aardies' Category

An Aardie-splosion
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Santa Aardvark has given out a gross of golden kudos for those in the Lutheran blogosphere who write Christmas posts. I got hit twice, bringing NR’s total up to six. If you’re still on vacation, you could spend it reading instead of shoveling snow.
Thanks, Aardvark!

A Christ-mass After All
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007

I had known that I would sing the first verse of Stille Nacht during the late Christmas Eve service for several weeks. I became a little concerned when I was informed I would solo (chant) the Opening Versicles and the Phos Hilaron of the Evening Prayer service, both the Pastor’s part and the Congregation’s Part. [...]

Born of the Virgin Mary
Monday, December 24th, 2007

Again the LORD spoke to Ahaz, “Ask a sign of the LORD your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven.” But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, and I will not put the LORD to the test.” And he said, “Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for [...]

Golden Aardvark the Fourth
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

The best Lutheran blogger operating under a pseudonym, the Aardvark has given On Pseudonymous Bloggers one of his Golden Aardvark awards. Since it’s been a while since the Great Earth Pig has handed out awards, this one elicits an extra dose of gratitude.
Unsurprisingly some of the other award recipients made it into this [...]

On Pseudonymous Bloggers
Thursday, January 4th, 2007

On some of the religious blogs that I read, I am seeing the call for pseudonymous (fake-name) bloggers to reveal themselves. The proposition is made that because a real name is not revealed, integrity is destroyed and Christian virtue is not extolled.
I’m not sure I can agree with the premise, for more reasons than I [...]