Territorial Bloggings

Well, once again Valparaiso University is in the news. And, once again, it’s not for anything that I would say is good.
VU to hire first female pastor
Within the past 6 months, VU has made waves in the Lutheran world, first for the hiring of a new President, and now for this hiring of a female [...]

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 [...]

The LCMS is in a handbasket, and you know where that mode of transport takes you…
Per this letter, the St. Louis Seminary (CSL) has jumped into bed with a renegade, conservative/”confessional”, faction of ELCA, WordAlone.
So, what many view to be as the crown jewel seminary of the LCMS (not me — I prefer CTSFW, but [...]

From the Neighbors section of today’s local paper: Valparaiso University chapel introduces two new Lutheran hymnals.
VU is changing over from the previous melange of hymnals (I must confess that I don’t know exactly which ones they’ve been using, although I could guess…), and will now be using the two newest hymnals from the [...]