Baptists all in favor of Ablaze! (by Mollie)
One of the people I follow on Twitter is Ed Stetzer. Stetzer is part of the LifeWay Research Team, a Baptist research effort…
One of the people I follow on Twitter is Ed Stetzer. Stetzer is part of the LifeWay Research Team, a Baptist research effort…
I’m working on a story about how families should plan the end-of-life care of elderly family members and treat it as a sanctity…
President Kieschnick’s most recent letter to pastors includes this request: What is the Synod’s position on . It is not at all unusual…
For Pascha, two Greek Orthodox churches on the island of Chios fire rockets at each other. During the Divine Liturgy. My congregation is…
and were looking for a good confessional Lutheran congregation, where would you go? (and please pardon this personal blog post!)
A year ago, when Synodical President Gerald Kieschnick and Board for Communication Services executive director David Strand tried to make the claim that…
You know, one of the great things about being a confessional Lutheran is that you can usually count on your fellow confessional Lutherans…
Today we commemorate these two wonderful artists. You can’t hit a museum in Europe without seeing some of Durer’s masterpieces and Cranach’s altarpiece…
I’ve mentioned before my agnosticism on the matter of selling KFUO-FM. I am swayable to arguments on both sides. Still, from a public…
That’s the good news. The bad news is that it’s raising funds for itself. Heh. LCMS News just sent out information about Gift…
We recently discussed the financial woes being faced by Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. They are not alone. This USA Today article looks…
If you are as fascinated by bioethics issues as I am, you simply must head over to Rev. Robert C. Baker’s new blog…
With all due respect to those who use them, I can not STAND sermon illustrations that use props. I always feel like my…
This is a great story about a Catholic high school teacher who was honored by the school for his work with students and…
You have to check out this hilarious video over at the CyberBrethren site. It’s a satire about what it takes to do successful…
While Synod, Inc. highlights how much money it has raised through it’s Ablaze! fundraising arm (somehow neglecting to mention that they’ve only netted…
I’m sure we’ve all experienced some thefts at our congregations, but imagine if you lost your Cranach painting. A Lutheran church in Norway…
Until I served on the Board for Communication Services, I wasn’t actually aware of the profound difference between the AM and FM stations….
A brilliant Lutheran educator sent along President Gerald Kieschnick’s proclamation for National Lutheran Schools Week (this week). It quotes John 3:16, using an…
I have a brief entry in an Ash Wednesday symposium over at National Review Online, in case you are interested.
President Kieschnick continues to claim that he is “not aware of any …threat of any lawsuit against Rev. Todd Wilken or Jeff Schwarz.”…
So we have some minor updates on the issue of legal threats made against Issues, Etc. Apparently a gazillion people have been emailing…
I don’t know if you’ve ever been in a situation where you’re recieving threatening letters from lawyers but it’s most unpleasant. As any…
Of the four attorneys working on the LCMS v Madsen case, three of them (Strand, Jinkins, and Polcyn) are full partners in the…