Territorial Bloggings

A Cogent Mélange of Lutheran & Pop-Culture Punditry
January 6, 2008

Once more unto the breech

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : general

Well, my two week break is over. Tomorrow, it’s back to work (for me), school (für die Kinder), & the mud room (for Holly).
Several times during the past two weeks, I felt almost guilty, like I wasn’t getting done what I should. At those times, I tried to remind myself of why I took the [...]


December 5, 2007

This ‘n that

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : general

Over a week without posting. Who’da thunk it?
Paragraph 1: The Weather (External) — Winter is here in NW IN, in the form of sub-freezing temps & ~5″ of snow last night. I drive past lots of farmland (corn & soybean fields mostly) on the way to work, and the starkness of snow covered fields [...]


October 19, 2007

Willow Creek repents?

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : theology

Per this blog & this article at Christianity Today, Bill Hybels over at Willow Creek states “We made a mistake.”
Wow.
I’ve long thought the theology of pop-American Evangelicalism (as defined by the “seeker sensitive” mantra of Church-Growthers like Bill Hybels’ Willow Creek & Rick Warren’s Saddleback churches) to be deficient, dangerous, and outright wrong. Thus, it’s [...]


October 5, 2007

The finding out…

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : general

While the waiting might very well be the hardest part, I can now say that the finding out isn’t all that easy, either.
As might have been easily discerned, I was waiting on the results of a job search. More specifically on the results of being a finalist for a position that would’ve been a significant [...]