Territorial Bloggings

A Cogent Mélange of Lutheran & Pop-Culture Punditry
April 24, 2008

A quick peek at 2010 and beyond

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : theology

One of the big, controversial topics at last year’s LCMS national convention was the big push for a special convention in 2009 to deal with a massive restructuring of the synodical constitution. After encountering more resistance than initially anticipated, the special convention was tabled & will now be folded into the next regular convention in [...]


August 13, 2007

Nothing much to say

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : general

Not much to say lately. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing…
I’ve got work-angst & I’ve got church-angst. I feel like I’ve been fighting a two-front war, with the main casualties being my own internal compass/well-being and (more importantly) the folks that I’ve been trying to protect from the two-front [...]


July 28, 2007

Houston Recap: Met & Gret

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : theology

As conventions are a time for meeting & greeting, I like alliteration (even when it’s ungrammatical), and the 2007 Convention is in the past, here are some of the more interesting folks I met & gret…
SP Kieschnick - Yes, the big kahuna himself, our Rev. Dr. President. After the convention had officially ended on Thursday, [...]


July 22, 2007

If ever you’re a delegate…

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : theology

You can look forward to this level of “stuff” to make its way to you…

The top half is “official” convention stuff (e.g., the workbook & various issues of “Today’s Business”), while the bottom half is the distillation (i.e., removal of envelopes) of all the pre-convention stuff I received, minus issues of Christian News…
It might not [...]