Having “slandered” old African proverbs in another post, I thought I’d move on in the spirit of the recent Olympic Games to praise new Chinese fortune cookies. Continue reading
Female Elders
You’ll recall that the 2004 Convention said that woman can be elders as long as it doesn’t involve them in the function or accountability of the pastoral office. As of 31 July 2008 three of the nine elders at Trinity, Lexington Park, MD are women. If you would like to see for yourself go to here: Continue reading
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The Well of Holiness
G.K. Chesterton said, “Men may or may not expect an act of healing to take place at a holy well, but nobody expects it ten miles from the well” (“The New Jerusalem,” Collected Works, Volume XX, p. 308). Nobody except modern “Christian” men. Continue reading
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“Drift Away”
Who can forget this 70s classic especially since it’s still being recorded as of 2007? It begins plaintively like a good hymn in the “suffering” section of a hymnal should. Continue reading
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The Rosebush
A man wakes in the middle of the night to find a rosebush growing resplendently in the middle of the bedroom. He knows it’s his bedroom, his bed, his furniture, his floor, yet from that floor sprouts this magnificent rose. Since he is sure he knows where he is and what can and cannot be, he concludes that the rosebush must be a dream. Continue reading
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“I Hate Everything
“He said, ‘I hate this bar and I hate to drink.
But on second thought, tonight I think
I hate everything.'” Continue reading
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Don Quixote
I am beginning to fear for the future of the LCMS ministerium. Continue reading
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Public Doctrine
Much fanfare was made when in 2001 when the LCMS in convention affirmed “The book The Voice of our Church on the Question of Church and Ministry, by Dr. C.F.W. Walther…as the definitive statement under Holy Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions of the Synod’s understanding on the subject of church and ministry.” This is our public doctrine.
Clear enough, right? So are we bound by Thesis Eight on Ministry from the English translation of the 1851 Milwaukee Synodical convention which reads as follows: “The Continue reading
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Bonheoffer, Hitler, and Holocaust
The January Concordia Theological Quarterly has an article entitled “Themes of the Cruciform Life in Bonheoffer.” Bonheoffer was executed for his participation in the plot to assassinate the one man every man thinks ought to have been: Hitler.
Cowboy Service and The Lutheran Service Book
Isn’t this a hoot? Holy Ghost Lutheran Church, Fredericksburg, Texas (ELCA) had their annual Cowboy Service on July 6, 2008. It begins with the leader saying, “The Lord be with y’all,” and the congregation responding, “And also with y’all.” Continue reading
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