Month: June 2018

Charlemagne’s Coronation So, when Winfred (Boniface) was born, the Moslems were in North Africa. Sixty years later they were stopped in their tracks by Charles Martel at Tours, just south of Paris. Remember Charles had...

Entering a monastery, Winfred, who later will become Boniface, was a distinguished scholar and his piety was beyond reproach.  He was a great student and became an even greater teacher.  The monastery where he was learning and...

There are things that slip through the cracks.  I was looking to get my hymn list done for the summer and I looked at my calendar and saw that June 5 was the commemoration of Boniface of Mainz, “missionary to the...

This from the International Lutheran Council online. MADAGASCAR – On May 25, 2018, the Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagas – FLM) voted to “more fully realize our unity as Lutheran Christians” between itself...

I love this picture that visually represents “chutzpah”.  Chutzpah is one of those things that is hard to explain but you know it when you see it.  It means something like audacity. The Pope in Rome is making a lot...