Territorial Bloggings

A Cogent Mélange of Lutheran & Pop-Culture Punditry
January 29, 2005

Strawmen ain’t got no brains

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : theology

As per the norm, Theresa has done us all a service with one of her latest postings over at Be Strong in the Grace — this time dealing with the subject of the oft-constructed strawman argument warning against “too much” doctrinal purity.
Theresa does a nice job of summarizing another blogger’s posting on the subject, along [...]


January 16, 2005

Franchising God

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : theology

In today’s Chicago Tribune, I read a particularly disquieting article about what seems to be an emerging trend — franchising churches!
The article (to which I link here, with full attribution to the Chicago Tribune, so hopefully they won’t sic their lawyers on me, as I think this reasonably falls within the Fair Use gray area…) [...]


January 16, 2005

A Late Thought on Disasters

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : theology

I know that much has been written of late about great disasters, and how some folks have been seemingly driven to try and answer the question of how/why (a) God could “let” this happen. I’ve weighed in on that particular silly question, but I’ve come across an interesting text & commentary that I think helps [...]


January 13, 2005

ELCA has 3 of 4 Initials Wrong

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : theology

This could be on the Mike Myers SNL skit “Coffee Talk with Linda Richman”…
“The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America is neither evangelical, Lutheran, nor a church. Discuss.”
With today’s announcement & release of the long awaited report on human sexuality entitled, “Journeying Together Faithfully”, the ***A has once again shown that they’d rather do a bad [...]