Territorial Bloggings

A Cogent Mélange of Lutheran & Pop-Culture Punditry
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. [...]


May 17, 2007

I get monasticism

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : theology

I love visiting Fort Wayne, largely because it gives me (at the very least) the opportunity to drive through the campus of CTSFW. There is something about being on the campus of that seminary that I find almost indescribably sublime. It’s calming, comforting, & inspiring. (And if I make it into the bookstore, frustrating and/or [...]


May 12, 2007

Book Review: _Me, Myself, & Bob_

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : popmedia

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 [...]


December 7, 2006

The “Nanny State” sucks

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : zeitgeist

Like none of us saw this coming? Yeah, right…
The most appropriate quote? “The intrusions of the “Nanny State” are never-ending.”
The sub-title of the article (“Many Politicians Would Rather Restrict Our Freedoms Than Improve Our Lives” ) puts a political spin on it, but that’s certainly not the only way in which [...]