Territorial Bloggings
A Cogent Mélange of Lutheran & Pop-Culture Punditry
The Good Old Days?
As usual, World Magazine has some good grist for the cogitation mill…
I like History. In elementary & high school, I always liked Social Studies, and in college I got my BA in History. History is cool, History is interesting, History is power (at least the writing of it…). Historiography (i.e., the methodology of History or [...]
Properly Valuing Your Pastor
As I continue to dig out from under the backlog of pastor’s blog entries…
HT: Aardvark Alley for a new entry on my blogroll, Rev. Tim May’s On the Lutheran Church and Her Liturgy.
Pr. May has a particularly nice posting from Oct 19, entitled The Gift of Pastors (Eph 4:11-16), in which he expounds in a [...]
Some Musings On CN
Christian News & Herman Otten.
Those 4 words, those 2 names are famous (some would say infamous) in LCMS circles.
I’ve been reading CN for about 4 years now, and I wish I had known about, and had access to, it earlier. It’s not perfect, and I don’t always agree with what Pr. Otten writes or prints. [...]
Churches & Credit Ratings
Both the Cranach & main WorldMagBlog have recently had entries (and lengthy comment threads) on the topic of churches accepting offerings via credit cards, debit cards, and/or automatic/direct-draft bank withdrawals.
I prefer the better, albeit shorter, Cranach discussion — “Tithing by Credit Card” — to the longer thread over at the main blog — “Technological Tithing”. [...]
