Category Archives: General

Everyone knows Santayana’s quote that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, but I prefer Russians to Spaniards.  A Russian proverb says, “Dwell on the past and you will lose an eye; forget the past and you will … Continue reading →

I was going to title this “St. Louis Seminary President Throws Fort Wayne Seminary Under the Bus,” but I thought it too long, and that was before I realized that wasn’t the worst of it.

  I complain that laymen don’t read the Lutheran Confessions, but can you really blame them? Below is a comforting quote from the Apology, but in the Triglotta it’s in Apology Article III in Tappert and Kolb it’s in Article … Continue reading →

  First let me say, when you’re the editor of any publication, you get to choose which letters to the editor to publish.  Below you will find one Logia chose not to.

  The following is part of an interview NPR aired on July 7, 2009 between “Marketplace’s” Kai Ryssdal and Google Chairman of the Board and CEO Eric Schmidt, and it should scare the tar out of us all.

The May 2009 Lutheran Witness has what the author claims to be a fair review of the blockbuster novel The Shack.  I claim the review is lame.  I can’t claim the novel is lame since I haven’t read it. My … Continue reading →

This probably shouldn’t bother me like it does.  Looking through the catalog of a religious supply company, I chanced upon an appreciation gift.  It was a was a 7 inch free-standing cross made of glass.  Etched in it were these … Continue reading →

The sainted Dr. Buls said whole sermons can be written on Greek prepositions.  In Lutheran elementary school I was required in 6th grade to memorize the following poem.   Until by into after from Across against with toward on Among … Continue reading →

What is noteworthy to me about the Shrek movies is the princess who could chose to be beautiful some of the time choosing to be an ogre all of the time.  This strikes me as nobler then the King Arthur … Continue reading →