Month: May 2017

There is more than one way to censor things that we don’t like or remove things that offend us.  Just recently a Bible class for 1st graders was cancelled because of a group of atheists who claimed that teaching the Bible...

One of the reasons that we started this blog was the crossings and the comings and the goings of the Minnesota North and the North Dakota Districts.  Backgrounds and friendships and common work and mission are always grounds for...

The slaughter of innocents has always awakened a sense of horror in individuals who have any sense of a moral compass.  Societies and governments are particularly tasked to protect the innocent.  We have failed in so many ways...

I grew up with the word “mod”.  It was a short form of “modern” created by folks who were “far out”, “cool”, and “groovy”.  We were “with it” and...

For Lutherans the great read has to be “The Hammer of God” by Bo Giertz.  Sadly the original has been badly served by American translators who all but excised Giertz’s defense of Confessional Lutheranism and...