By Daniel van Voorhis –
Greetings from rain drenched, El Niño battered Southern California. While the rest of the country is in its usual winter appropriate gear, we here are wondering if our UGGs are waterproof, bemoaning the possible hazards that water might bring to Awards season, and slowing to a crawl in our cars on the already worst freeways in the nation.
By Scott Keith –
Disclaimer:
Before I write this blog and describe how awful I believe the concept of, “Happy Wife, Happy Life” is, please allow me to provide a few disclaimers. First, I love my wife! We have been married for twenty-one years and have raised three beautiful children together. I can honestly say that she is the love of my life. Second, we, like all couples, have had good times and bad.
By Paul Koch –
I will never forget the time I had right before I left the seminary for the parish; I was happy that I was able to spend a few days with Dr. Feuerhahn before hitting the road. I remember being in his study and he was generously unloading some of his excess library on me. We were there because I had mentioned to him that one of the great fears I had about leaving the seminary, was leaving behind its incredible library. To walk away from the library was to walk away from the promise of answers held within its stacks.
By Scott Keith –
I have recently been in discussions with a new acquaintance and founder of the Dadly Rally, regarding what some have labeled the myth of “Father Absence” in the home. These discussions have been over email, so they have not been as in-depth as I would like. From what I can glean from our brief conversation, his concern is that all of the negative press surrounding the absence of fathers in the home is discouraging to the overall movement, of which I think I am a part, to increase father presence in the home.
By Jeff Mallinson –
“If it were easy someone would have explained The Way to the ruler,” so says the ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi. He was right. Even with educated advisors, experts, and commentators, no one really seems to know what’s going on. The nations rage. World leaders seem incapable of keeping up with complex conflicts of our age.
By Paul Koch –
Once again I find myself amongst good friends trudging around a strange land steeped in inside jokes, bizarre rituals, and humor that can only move dedicated sycophants to robust laughter. That’s right we’ve come again to the great symposium at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, IN. Though it is a strange land, it is a joy to be here.
By Scott Keith –
Lately, I have been listening to parents as they try to instruct their children. The methods they use are odd to me. It is as if I am watching a Bizzaroworld where things work backwards; a world where up is down and down is up. My question is simple: Is the modern child incapable of learning right from wrong unless concepts are posed as questions?
By Paul Koch –
“Do you believe and confess the three Ecumenical Creeds, namely the Apostles’, the Nicene, and the Athanasian Creeds, as faithful testimonies to the truth of the Holy Scriptures, and do you reject all the errors which they condemn?”
By Joel Hess –
So another Rock ‘n’ Roll icon, if there ever was one, has died. David Bowie. He was more than a Rock ‘n’ Roll superstar. He was bigger than that. He was an entertainer on a Wagnerian scale. Even his name was the product of his desire to create and entertain.
By Jeff Mallinson –
Urgency leads us to wake up and get busy. That’s not a bad thing. Ours is an era of urgency, because of the increasingly rapid speed of change in technology, the economy, politics, and international strife. Nonetheless, urgency can distract us from threats that, while far ahead on the horizon, may be more important than the things that are right in front of us.
By Paul Koch –
In 1849 Wilhelm Löhe wrote an examination of the relationship between the pastoral office as it comes to us from the pages of the New Testament and the congregations that hold firm to those very Scriptures. He made note of a trend he had observed in the church, a trend that I fear has never abated,
By Daniel van Voorhis –
I tend to not read “best of the year” articles. I glance, but do not put much stock into them. So it makes no sense that I ask you to read this, an article I probably wouldn’t read myself. Except I am going to make my suggestions, mere suggestions with some context AND I am going to say something about Top Gun. So keep reading!
By Scott Keith –
“The ritual of an Inklings was unvarying. When half a dozen or so had arrived, tea would be produced, and then when pipes were well alight Jack would say, ‘well has nobody got anything to read us?’ Out would come a manuscript, and we would settle down to sit in judgment upon it––real unbiased judgment, too, since we were no mutual admiration society: praise for good work was unstinted, but censure for bad work––or even not so good work––was often brutally frank. To read to the Inklings was a formidable ordeal.”
By Bob Hiller –
I am an introvert. I love people and I love being around them…for a short period of time. Ultimately, it becomes exhausting for me to be social.
By Caleb Keith –
It is the dawn of a New Year, and the internet is filled with recaps of this 2015’s biggest news stories. Disasters and happy endings flood social media as everyone waits for the blank slate that is the new year.
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