Territorial Bloggings

Recently, I’ve read two very good postings by Pr. Beisel (post 1 & post 2) over at One Lutheran…Ablogâ„¢. Both of these postings engage a larger battle currently raging in the LCMS under the general umbrella of the official synodical Ablaze! program/initiative, particularly as it pertains to missions. I recommend that you read both posts [...]

Would that God bless us all with faithful undershepherds, like Chaplain to the World, who get this.
We need Pastors, not glib, glad-handing, “friends”, and I think Rev. Kavouras deserves (let those who know him understand) a big hug for saying so! ;^)
-ghp

So, what do you think - if we (i.e., LCMS Lutherans) were willing to follow the ill-advised liturgical changes that flowed out of Vatican II 30+ years ago, might we also be willing to hew back to the historic liturgy now that Rome is doing the same?
While I really do admire Rome for realizing & [...]

Over at Gottesblog, Fr. Eckardt has proffered a very useful & insightful posting on the role of ceremony in church, entitled Why ceremony?.
There is no doubt that Fr. Eckardt is “high-church” — something to which anyone who has read his fine journal Gottesdienst could easily attest. High-church ceremony has been under assault ever since the [...]