Thanks to my trusty assistant Cheryl Banks for setting up the Amazon connection with the sidebar (scroll down and look to the right) linking to my books. The display keeps refreshing with different titles. With links to used book dealers, even my more obscure and
Now that I’ve got Australians in the family, I take a particular interest in that particularly interesting land. Australian journalist John Barron offers an amusing and instructive comparison of how our two countries run elections. The Washington Post article is entitled Elections? Here’s How You
That huge ice storm is devastating America’s heartland, having killed 23 people, mostly in traffic accidents. But it has hit Oklahoma especially hard. Everything has been encased with nearly an inch of ice, which is more weight than trees and power lines can bear. The
Continuing the Lutheran identity discussion. . . .I want to draw your attention to Kevin N’s comments on the ‘Not For Lutherans Anymore” post. He tells about growing up in a liberal ELCA church that was all confused about the gospel. He heard and grasped
Yes, presidential candidate Mitt Romney was one of those young men in a suit who knock on your door to try to get you to become a Mormon. This story from the Washington Post tells about his time as a missionary, and he was a
Read this account of a young woman who converted from Islam to Christianity–how her father, the imam of a mosque, and the rest of her family are trying to kill her and how she has been in hiding for over a decade. This is happening
(Non-Lutheran readers, you may want to skip this post. I don’t want you to get annoyed, but please bear with me with this reflection on Lutheran identity. Though actually, you could probably help.) Hey, we Lutherans got a shout-out in Mitt Romney’s Mormon speech! He
Karlheinz Stockhausen, the German advant garde composer of mostly non-melodic music, has died. He became best known to the public when he commented that the September 11 attacks constituted “the greatest work of art imaginable for the whole cosmos.” “Minds achieving something in an act
So Christian conservatives ARE rallying around one of their own, Mike Huckabee, who has now lapped Mitt Romney in Iowa. Polls show him leading in that state with 39%, compared to Romney’s 17%. Now that he is the frontrunner in Iowa, the tone of his
In answer to something that came up in one of the comment threads, I don’t want this to be just a “Lutheran blog.” I want all of our readers, including those from all kinds of church bodies and those from none at all, to feel
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