Territorial Bloggings

A Cogent Mélange of Lutheran & Pop-Culture Punditry
November 23, 2007

Tryptophan fueled musings

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : general

Coming down from yesterday’s tryptophan high, I realized that I forgot to make the posting yesterday, that I was planning on making an annual tradition: “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly…” It is our duty to ensure that the classics live on!
The Territorial Brood has been in the ancestral [...]


May 21, 2007

Mass musings

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : theology

So, I had occasion to attend a Roman Mass this past weekend, having traveled to a downriver Detroit suburb for a wedding on my wife’s side of the family. I took it as a chance to engage in a little theological anthropology, if you will. Fortunately, my wonderful wife is nicely reformed (pun partially intended) [...]


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 [...]


February 25, 2007

James Cameron’s new “documentary” on Christ

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : theology

Director James Cameron (of Terminator & Titanic fame) is about to release a “documentary” in which he will claim to have found the coffins of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and their son.
Good gravy!
Paul Maier already wrote about this — A Skeleton In God’s Closet —� and did so far more creatively, and with far more [...]