Same challenges, different priorities
Yesterday I posted a quote I found from 1929. It dealt with the desire of some progressives to lose our hymnody. Well, here’s…
Yesterday I posted a quote I found from 1929. It dealt with the desire of some progressives to lose our hymnody. Well, here’s…
I came across this fantastic quote: We must take note also of a most deplorable tendency of our times, namely, that of preferring…
I come from a mainstream media background. At the news organizations I’ve worked at, our objective was to simply report the news. We…
I’m paging through the most recent First Things (March 2010), which is the 20th anniversary issue of the publication devoted to “religion in…
Back in February, The Reporter ran a story headlined “World Mission seeks 200-plus missionaries.” There is a major confusion in the church today…
Over at Matt Harrison’s Mercy Journeys site, I learned the sad news that Pastor Doris Jean Louis had been killed: The Psalmist wrote,…
Next week is Lutheran Schools Week. Lutheran schools across the country will be celebrating in various ways. From a recent Reporter, we learn:…
A few months ago my family had the pleasure of attending a lecture on Friedrich Conrad Dietrich Wyneken, the second president of the…
I know that our brothers and sisters in Haiti are in our thoughts and prayers. I wanted to commend for your reading this…
I was reading this nice little piece about how Michigan’s first Black LCMS congregation was started: In 1930, a group of black families…
I grew up with a large library of Arch Books and I think that the simple rhymes and illustrations helped me learn my…
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that a committee opposed to the sale of KFUO-FM to Joy FM has filed a supplement to its…
Concordia University – Ann Arbor announced that they have hired Dr. Russell L. Nichols to serve as the university’s interim CEO. Nichols earned…
The January Reporter ran a very positive article about the Transforming Churches Network. I didn’t learn terribly much from the article and the…
In the YouTube video that is on the front page of the LCMS.org site, President Kieschnick mentioned that he himself had hoped to…
since last week, when failed Democratic candidate for Senate Martha Coakley misspelled the name of the state she was seeking to represent. Yikes….
The Webster-Kirkwood Times has a story saying as much, based largely on an interview with Frank Absher, a broadcast veteran and St. Louis…
The LCMS held a big worship conference in St. Louis this week. For those interested, Dan at Necessary Roughness has posted some of…
In the previous post, I linked to two stories put out by the Synod’s Communications team about the relief efforts being managed by…
If you’re looking for how to help with relief efforts in Haiti, you can do no better than contribute extra funds to the…
Another hit by Publius Aequillus: From Professor Howard Hill and the “Music Man” to visions of the 1970s with the echo of “Survey…
It bears an uncanny resemblance to another book!
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: At least three petitions challenging the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod’s proposed sale of radio station KFUO-FM to Gateway Creative…
We’re lucky enough to have another missive from Publius Aequillus, where he discusses whether greater consolidation of power in the office of the…
Remember last year when David Strand fired Todd Wilken and Jeff Schwarz and canceled Issues, Etc. without explanation? When people expressed outrage that…