Territorial Bloggings

All too rare is the blog posting that generates a comment thread that outshines the original post. Father Hollywood has done just that with his post Emerging Luther? !
Not only is the main post a great analysis of the increasingly interesting “Emergent Church” phenomena, particularly as it is impacting the LCMS, but the comments that [...]

I don’t think that the Holy Ghost’s use of a pastoral analog/metaphor in Holy Scriptures was merely a matter of “cultural relevance” — No, I think there’s more to it than that. Yes, it was an understandable metaphor at the time Scripture was written; however, it is one that is still quite apt today, even [...]

On this day of the Church year that honors Matthias (chosen by God, through the apostles, to replace Judas Iscariot), Cross+Wise’s Ortho+Box makes some especially nice points. To wit:
When the disciples looked for a replacement for Judas, they did not look for the most polished preacher. They did not look for the friendliest man. They [...]