Yes, I recently watched the Lion King (for about the 95th time). The real one from 1994, not […]
Category Archive: Dennis Matyas
Wait. Read Mark 6:30–44, then come back to me. Welcome back. Last week I was on vacation. Glorious […]
Last week my wife and I went on a trip with some other good friends. Four couples, no […]
With Father’s Day established on a Sunday, unless I am on vacation I have the distinct honor as […]
Do you find yourself once again with an empty bottle of vodka? Is your arm aching for a […]
One of my favorite lines from Seinfeld is the one where Jerry meets the Mandelbaums, who repeatedly accost […]
Welp, it’s happened again. Another evangelical American superstar appears to have bitten the dust: Kevin Max, 1/3 of […]
Lull in the conversation? Looking for Bible study content? Sick of talking about Fortnight around the dinner table? […]
*Sigh* I guess we have to talk about Bill and Melinda Gates, though I’m tempted just to reprint […]
If you are a pastor in the LCMS, I cannot recommend highly enough the respite retreat I just […]
I am so oppressed and disadvantaged it’s not even funny. But now I have the floor and everyone […]
In 1944, groundbreaking jazz quartet The Mills Brothers topped the charts with their catchy hit, “You Always Hurt […]
I came to communion late in the game. Oh, I took bread and wine for several years, but […]
Our Lord seems to have had a strange relationship with death. Often the way he acted around it […]
There is a weirdly vast universe of spitting contests. When I thought of this article’s premise, watermelon seeds […]
I realize that bringing up a topic in order to say that you shouldn’t bring up that topic […]
In the mid-nineties, a marine biologist named Dr. Daniel Pauly coined the phrase “Shifting Baseline Syndrome” to describe […]
A reflection on Ash Wednesday after the first Sunday in Lent may be a bit late to the […]
One of the supposed benefits of 2020 is the explosion of technological means by which to educate. Zoom, […]
All priorities need to be evaluated and checked against a metric of risk and reward, which vary in […]