Category: Mollie Hemingway

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…

Via Rasburry’s Res, here’s the text of an overture that will come before next week’s Southern Illinois District Convention. SUBJECT: TO DIRECT THE…

So much information is coming out about the curious decision by LCMS leadership to pursue legal action against Issues, Etc. after they claimed…

One of my favorite pasttimes is reading the odd Ablaze! stories. Usually they’re about having a completely uncomfortable-sounding conversation about something vaguely religious….

Pr. Todd Wilken and Jeff Schwarz have more on how the LCMS is threatening legal action against them on their web site. Go…

Pr. Wilken just said something about LCMS, Inc. opposing the application for the trademark of Issues, Etc. The trademark that LCMS, Inc. failed…

I keep a Google News Alert out on the word “Lutheran” which yields many amazingly boring stories about church fundraisers and basketball games….

I’ve studied the differences between the Lutheran Confessions and other church body’s teaching enough to know that it’s highly unlikely I would ever…

We’ve discussed before how poorly Ablaze! has done according to its own rigid counting criteria. We’re supposed to Gospel touch 100 million people…

A couple of Sundays ago, I visited a Romanian Orthodox church to witness the chrismation of some of my friends. I have been…

I’m bunkering down here in the nation’s capital, preparing for the road closures, bridge closures, parking restrictions and general mayhem that will come…

As in, what would James Bond do?

Recently, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released data on the religious makeup of Congress. While some groups were over-represented (Catholics,…

This morning I asked my daughter to go get a book off of her shelf and bring it to me so we could…

You may be interested in an fascinating analysis of the Ablaze! program from an LCMS mission executive. The Rev. David Vaughn served as…

Sometimes boards enter into executive sessions to discuss sensitive matters that the members don’t want heard by a larger populace — either by…

We discussed a few weeks ago the sudden departure of LCMS World Mission executive director Rev. Robert Roegner. His interim replacement is the…

There’s a good book on church architecture with that title and it is woefully adequate for describing way too many houses of worship…

Okay, I’m getting reports from all over about the most recent Board of Directors meeting. One of the more interesting details from the…

The LCMS Reporter staff didn’t publish any letters to the editor this month. Instead, they published something that makes me wonder just how…

Why couldn’t these be named after Martin Luther instead of Luther Vandross? Also, what would replace the doughnut if it were named after…

So we noted that Bob Roegner resigned suddenly from the LCMS Board for Mission Services. That board has been a disaster for some…

I don’t quite know why I was traveling in the dark part of the internet where I found this, but find it I…