Territorial Bloggings

A Cogent Mélange of Lutheran & Pop-Culture Punditry
November 22, 2004

Why blog?

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : blogging

Why blog?
I ask myself that question quite often, along with some other related questions.
Questions like,

What kind of blog do I want to have?
How much am I willing to reveal?
Am I willing to pander, gearing what I write just to get an audience?
Can blogging, or at least my blogging, be anything other than self-indulgent?

A while back, [...]


November 22, 2004

Church at Starbucks?

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : theology

Thought-provoking posting from Rob over at Love and Blunder, entitled Why not have church at Starbucks?
I haven’t commented on it yet, mainly because the topic piqued my interest so quickly, particularly when Rob offered these questions for consideration:
Why modify the church to look more like secular culture when the culture does the best job of [...]


November 22, 2004

Invalid Baptisms

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : theology

Interesting new topic over at Worldmagblog.com, regarding a controversy in Australia over Baptism. More specifically, here’s the entry by the Worldmagblog.com editor:
Archbishop John Bathersby has accused St. Mary’s Church in Brisbane Australia of performing invalid baptisms. Fathers Peter Kennedy and Terry Fitzpatrick have baptized infants for several years in the name of the “Creator, Liberator [...]


November 19, 2004

Blog Posting Software

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : blogging

Ok, here’s another attempt at using a blog/journal editor, that is separate from the one built-into the WordPress CMS.
For some reason, let’s just call it a technology wanderlust, I just can’t be satisfied with the clean, simple, & straightforward editor built-into WP — nope, I have to try and figure out a “better” way. This [...]