MEMORANDUM To:                 The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod From:              Gerald B. Kieschnick, President Subject:          Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Document “Report and Recommendations on Ministry Policies” Date:      ...

In 2006, I became a fan of an emerging American reggae artist who also happens to be a Hasidic Jew.  He is Matisyahu, which is just the Yiddish version of his given name, Matthew.  Perhaps you remember his hit album, Youth. My family thoughtfully put some iTunes gift cards into my stocking this ye...

Anne Rice is one of America’s most highly successful authors.  She made her name penning Southern gothic vampire stories.  In recent years, however, Rice has made a re-conversion to Roman Catholicism, which she had abandoned as a college student in the 60s.  And she has determined to use he...

June 21, 2008Text: Colossians 2: 1-12 When I was a teenager - about 150,000 years ago - I was a pretty big fan of riding roller coasters. The amusement park near where I grew up in Kansas City, MO is called Worlds of Fun. I can remember the first roller coaster that I ever rode that had a loopty loo...

A great pal has this short insightful post on his blog, The Lutheran Logomaniac. In case you've wondered at the recent scarcity of posts here, I have been putting most of my blogging energy recently into the new seminary admission department blog called Concordia TheoBLOGical Seminary. Come pay a vi...

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I'm thoroughly enjoying Anne Rice's second novel about Jesus, having read and enjoyed the first when it came out. It's called, Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana. Her first novel about Jesus which looked at a portion of his childhood is Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt . I am one who has also read a cou...

Third Sunday in Lent February 24, 2008 Text: Lk 11.14-28 We don’t know much about the man who was possessed by the demon in Luke chapter 11. We don’t know his name or where he came from. We don’t know how long he’d been possessed or how he came to become possessed. All we do know is that whi...

Below is the homily I delivered this morning in chapel. Kramer Chapel February 4, 2008 Text: Luke 9:23-27 And he said to all, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. 24For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for...

February 1, 2008 .................... LCMSNews -- No. 11 World Mission re-evaluating situation in Kenya By Paula Schlueter Ross LCMS World Mission has asked its missionaries to Kenya to remain indefinitely in Ethiopia after they attend regularly scheduled meetings there, according to Travis Torblaa,...