Territorial Bloggings

A Cogent Mélange of Lutheran & Pop-Culture Punditry
March 24, 2008

Making sense of the nonsensical

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : theology

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 [...]


January 17, 2008

Father Hollywood emerges

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : theology

All too rare is the blog posting that generates a comment thread that outshines the original post. Father Hollywood has done just that with his post Emerging Luther? !
Not only is the main post a great analysis of the increasingly interesting “Emergent Church” phenomena, particularly as it is impacting the LCMS, but the comments that [...]


January 12, 2008

Lutheran orthodox catholicity

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : theology

I’m a week behind in pointing y’all t this, but Rev. Chaz Lehmann has, in his post An open letter to Orthodox commenters on Lutheran blogs, done a great job of concisely laying out why going East isn’t truly a viable and (dare I say) orthodox option for Lutherans.
On a certain level, I can understand [...]


July 1, 2007

Today’s good and bad

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : theology

Church this morning was a mix of good and bad things. But I guess that’s to be expected isn’t it…
The good:

The new LSBs were in the pews, and we sang all the hymns from them. They’ll be dedicated next week, and I would guess that in about a month or two we’ll start to see [...]