Territorial Bloggings

So, I get home from work to day to find the April issue of the LCMS monthly house organ, The Lutheran Witness, in my mailbox. I continue to get it out of an almost morbid curiosity to keep ‘in the know’ about what synod is putting out there as the party line. So its arrival tends to be a relatively uneventful thing, as I don’t expect too much from it, and thus am rarely disappointed. Usually, I buzz through it rather quickly, checking out the letters to the editor, all the official notices, and give at least a cursory glance at the articles, at least to see how Ablaze! they are. Most months, I even get through SPK’s column of inspiration & leadership.

This month, however, as I was paging through, I noticed the graphic at the top of this post, on the bottom of page 25. I said to my self, “Self, this just ain’t right! The very first issue after Issues, Etc. gets killed off of KFUO-AM, having never (to my recollection) been touted in The Lutheran Witness, they have an advert for the COMMERCIAL SIDE of the radio station, NOT THE SIDE ENGAGED IN MISSIONAL OUTREACH, MUCH LESS THE PROGRAM THAT SPECIFICALLY ENGAGED IN CHRIST-CENTERED, CROSS-FOCUSED OUTREACH?” Really?

And, yes, I shouted at myself inside my head. I really did.

Boy, and if all this wasn’t bad enough, I just noticed something that will really make you techie gearheads shake your heads — you’ll note that the link to the Witness’ website has a .asp extension. That got me curious, so I looked up the LCMS family of websites at Netcraft, only to find that the main LCMS website is being run off of a Windows 2003 server box! Yikes!

This all just gets uglier & uglier with each passing day…

-ghp