Territorial Bloggings

A Cogent Mélange of Lutheran & Pop-Culture Punditry
January 1, 2008

A New Year’s wish

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : theology

Would that God bless us all with faithful undershepherds, like Chaplain to the World, who get this.
We need Pastors, not glib, glad-handing, “friends”, and I think Rev. Kavouras deserves (let those who know him understand) a big hug for saying so! ;^)
-ghp


November 25, 2007

3 weddings in 6 months

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : zeitgeist

The focal point of this past weekend was not, like most of country, Thanksgiving - that was just the appetizer, as it were. Rather, the main focus for the Territorial Brood was the third wedding we’ve attended in the past 6 months.
All three have been “family”-related: the first, my wife’s blood relations, the second, [...]


August 13, 2007

Nothing much to say

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : general

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 [...]


August 5, 2007

Complaints

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : theology

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. [...]