Territorial Bloggings

Recently, I’ve listened to the Issues, Etc. interview & follow-up analysis of John Shelby Spong (Check out the Issues, Etc. archives for May — specifically the 5th & 10th). Spong, a retired Episcopal bishop is well & truly a piece of work. It’s not often that I’m willing to unreservedly declare someone a heretic, but [...]

Once again, Dr. Al Mohler has put out a very insightful blog posting today, this time on the subject of preaching’s precipitous decline in both form and function. Here’s a great snippet:

The current debate over preaching is most commonly explained as an argument about the focus and shape of the sermon. Should the preacher [...]

Taken from NewsMax.com — “Chaplain Wants Christ out of Air Force Academy”
The chaplain, Capt. Melinda Morton, a “Lutheran minister,” spoke out publicly on Tuesday as an Air Force task force arrived at the academy to investigate charges that officers and staff members pushed their religious beliefs on cadets.
The upshot: It shouldn’t really surprise anyone [...]

Ok, now this blog entry, reported by James Fulford exposes the utter absurdity of the PC social “gospel” road that the ELCA has gone down in its quest for “relevance”.
We should feel, and be driven by, guilt over the fact that we’re of white, germanic/scandanavian descent?
Strikes me as being not insignificantly critical of God, who, [...]