Territorial Bloggings

Something that’s come up more often of late is the idea of maintaining an anonymous, or pseudonymous, presence on the ‘net. Largely, my awareness of this has been driven by the spike of activity in the Lutheran blogosphere generated by the Issues, Etc. contretemps.
Rather than deal with the wide-ranging implications of anonymity on the Internet, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The whole Issues, Etc. debacle keeps rolling along & picking up steam. I’m not going to try to summarize things here, one because it’s too big & wide ranging for me to pull it off, and two because I think most of the folks who read my stuff are already plugged in to the best [...]