Territorial Bloggings

The abrupt cancellation of the LCMS radio station KFUO’s flagship program, as well as the firing of its host & producer, last Tuesday was bizarre, inexplicable, troubling, and hurtful. But the lack of explanation re: the reasons & rationale, indeed the appearance of corporate stonewalling & information embargo along with an almost Stalin-esqe purge (even [...]

Worldmagblog asks the question: Does praise music stink?
Well, in a word, YES.
Yes it does.
Thankfully, we Lutherans have a vast & rich musical heritage in which we can take refuge. Well, except for the Lutheran-in-name-only, Methobapticostal wannabes who are more than willing to trade that birthright for the pottage that’s offered by pop American Evangelicalism [...]

BOOK REVIEW:

Me, Myself, & Bob
by Phil Vischer
2006 - Nelson Books
ISBN: 0785222073
I am a Veggie Tales fan, and have been for darned near a decade. My kids were born & hit the video-watching phase right about the time that VT exploded in the late 1990s. VT were well-written, had a good message, great humor, and appealed [...]

This posting by Sandra “Madre” Ostapowich gives some really good background info on why the whole idea of ghetto-izing the “youth” is such a horrifically ill-advised thing, and why I’m so cranky about what’s been going on at/in my congregation of late.
I’m not prepared yet to wax verbose (much less eloquent) about this yet, but [...]