Our Scripture in church yesterday was another one of those enigmatic, yet profoundly evocative texts: Jacob wrestling with the LORD (Genesis 32:22-30). Pastor Douthwaite’s sermon, again, unfolded and applied it in some striking ways. Read the whole sermon here: St. Athanasius Lutheran Church: Pentecost 21
Saturday, October 16, was the day the patron of this blog, Lucas Cranach, the artist of the Reformation, died in 1553, at the age of 81. (His formal day of commemoration is April 6, set aside to honor him along with other Reformation-era artists, Albrecht
So say the computers, as the first BCS rating, which averages in the human polls with statistics on strength of schedule and other number crunching, has anointed my alma mater’s football team #1! Score an early round for Oklahoma. And for computers. The Sooners trail
The web-based radio program Issues, Etc. is planning a special series of programs for an early Reformation week, October 18-22, at 5:00 p.m. Central Time. The structure is following the chapters of my book Spirituality of the Cross. Here are the topics and the guests:
That’s how old I am today. I am at the end of the middle ages and one year from being ancient. (Notice how that goes through time backwards.) I remember the advent of the personal computer, the video-recorder, the microwave oven. I went off to
You have probably heard of the moratorium on home foreclosures due to sloppy paperwork in the mortgage industry. But there is potentially a far bigger problem, one that may affect your own paid-up mortgage. A court in Kansas has ruled that the old practice of
The news reports about this Pew Research study focuses on how more college graduates are getting married than non-college graduates, reversing an earlier trend. But there are a number of other curious findings: For the first time, adults are more likely to wed by the
Friends, way back on September 28–that’s last month, 16 days ago–I posted about our pastor’s sermon on a parable: The Rich Man & Lazarus | Cranach: The Blog of Veith. That innocent little post has now chalked up a record 422 comments at last count.
As the 33 Chilean miners are finally being rescued, one at a time, from their 68 days being trapped 2,000 feet below the surface, Christianity Today has an interesting report: Jimmy Sanchez, one of the 33 Chilean miners who have been trapped for over two
Baylor sociologists Paul Froese and Christopher Bader have conducted research into people’s conception of God. They published their findings in a new book America’s Four Gods: What We Say About God — And What That Says About Us. They found that Americans have four different
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