Territorial Bloggings
A Cogent Mélange of Lutheran & Pop-Culture Punditry
A New Year’s wish
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
3 weddings in 6 months
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, [...]
Nothing much to say
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 [...]
Complaints
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. [...]


