Good Music 19

Bob Dylan. Modern Times. Vintage Dylan: long, rambling songs that get stuck in your head. I’d say it’s a good blend of the styles and songwriting on Time Out of Mind and Love and Theft.
Ray Lamontagne. Till The Sun Turns Black. This is good. Every song. Get it. [...]

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If Only Our Adversaries Were Still Charging Us

“By means of God’s grace, we, too, intend to persist in this same confession until our blessed end and to appear before the judgment seat of our Lord Jesus Christ with a joyful, undaunted heart and conscience. And we further hope that from now on our adversaries will spare us, our churches, and their ministers [...]

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Thanks for Telling Us

“Ferrysburg City Council is currently considering a ban on smoking, which would forbid people from doing so ‘everywhere there is a business, workplace (or) public space,’ said City Manager Craig Bessinger.
“Smoking, however, would still be allowed at restaurant or bars, and the ordinance would not regulate people’s private use, such as in their cars or [...]

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My E-Mail

If anyone cares, this is the e-mail I sent to the NOW Dist. office:
Hi,
I am writing to express my disappointment with the Northwest District’s endorsement of Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth. Clearly, Christians are required to be stewards of God’s good creation, but the exact and detailed form of that stewardship is not [...]

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Maine, Here I Come

I have never been to the state of Maine. I am going there tomorrow. I will likely not have internet access. I will return. Stay tuned…
Timotheos

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[Post #1000!] What Are We Now…

…the ELCA or the Episcopalians? There’s no excuse for putting the weight of an official entity of the Missouri Synod behind public policy activity about which Christians can, in good conscience, disagree. It is not that Christians can disagree about being good stewards of the environment. Indeed, such stewardship is required of [...]

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Success Equals Growth?

Does anybody have a good “one-liner” to put forward when an individual assumes that a church is thriving when it is growing?

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“Ecumaniac”

I’ve begun Richard John Neuhaus’ Catholic Matters. As with most of his writings, it’s full of wit and nice turns of phrase. Though there is much to disagree with, here’s a nice quote: “It is said that a certain distortion of ecumenism has produced the ecumaniac. An ecumaniac is defined as someone [...]

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Free Speech?

Not, of course, when the Thought Police disagree. Newspeak must be implemented!
Timotheos

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The Hubris! The Arrogance!

I expect, at any moment, to see all the anti-theocracy loudmouths denouncing Chris Bell for his violation of the Constitutional Wall Of Separation.
Democratic gubernatorial nominee Chris Bell invoked his Christian faith on Thursday, saying he is sure Jesus would have supported embryonic stem cell research.
“What would Jesus do? He would not let political objections stand [...]

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