Territorial Bloggings

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 [...]

Much has been written about the 8-years-in-the-making, newly arrived Lutheran Service Book (LSB). At the risk of putting it too briefly and/or glibly, LSB is the Synod’s attempt to put right that which was done so very poorly in 1982’s Lutheran Worship (which was a quick & hasty hack job in an attempt to salvage [...]

My favorite seminarian has a nice update on the imminent Lutheran Service Book (LSB) from CPH.
In particular, I’m heartened to read that CPH is including encouragement for using the LSB as a standalone replacement for printed “worship folders.” These late 20th Century innovations bother me on two levels:

Stewardship-wise, as they are a waste of paper [...]

English Bible translations are a touchy subject for many people. It is good to have a little healthy skepticism about the biases that enter into a translation from the original languages into English. Holy Scriptures were given to us in the original languages of Hebrew & Greek. Thus, I’m not sure if it’s even possible [...]