Territorial Bloggings

This — Top 100 Fundamentalist Chat Room Quotes — falls into the category of “uncomfortably” funny. It’s funny in a sad way, even as it’s frustrating, infuriating, and just downright disheartening. The sheer ignorance on display is stunning, even as it’s bothersome to see a (very) few solid points lumped in with, and equated to, [...]

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 [...]

Complaining is a difficult thing to do in a blog, at least if you take seriously the “best practices” that are given for building readership.
After all, no one wants to hear/read silly whining, do they?
But yet, groaning under the weight one feels can be salutary. After all, the entire therapy industry is built around it. [...]

I leave for a few days (more on that in another post…), and what happens? There’s an avalanche of convention-related mail that arrived on Friday & Saturday, that’s what!
The avalanche included:

A “top of the ticket” voting guide from the National Evangelical Lutheran Conference
A convention open-house invite from the President of Valparaiso University (with an RSVP [...]