Thanks to Salem Lutheran School principal Joseph Althage for sharing this with the faculty today. Here is the link to WolframAlpha . And ...

I almost always carry a pocket watch. Wristwatches are just too sweaty for me (or maybe, I'm too sweaty for the wristwatch...). Anyway...

8 August 2010 at Salem Lutheran Church, Gretna, LA Text: Luke 19:41-48 In the name of + Jesus. Amen. The last place anyone would have wante...

I'm not complaining, mind you; just reporting. It still beats scraping ice off the windshield and getting a boot full of slush.

Thanks to the Rev. Rob Wurst, pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Cedar, Michigan for posting this remarkable short film. Pr. Wurst also...

Just to be clear, I did not show Easy Rider to Lion Boy, just the YouTube clip - which you have to admit is an especially funny tableau for...

... always a deacon. Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews...

1 August 2010 at Salem Lutheran Church, Gretna, LA Text: Luke 16:1-13 In the name of + Jesus. Amen. Jesus tells a story in which the hero i...

One of my favorite albums is Marillion 's 1985 Misplaced Childhood . This was a concept album typical of the period. Until now, I...

Funny and true. But we could use a "Lutheran Use Version" of this video. Now, in certain areas of Canada , smoking ( les cigarette...

25 July 2010 at Salem Lutheran Church, Gretna, LA Text: Mark 10:35-45 (Acts 11:27-12:5, Rom 8:28-39) In the name of + Jesus. Amen. Sts. Jam...

Bonnie is only a tropical depression and is not expected to strengthen to a tropical storm. But at this point, New Orleans is right in the...

This year's St. Michael's Liturgical Conference looks like a winner. In great contrast to the rock bands, skits, and dancing girls ...

20 July 2010 at Salem Lutheran Church, Gretna, LA Text: Mark 8:1-9 (Gen 2:7-17, Rom 6:19-23) In the name of + Jesus. Amen. Dear Philip, Jod...

Today is the sixth anniversary of my ordination into the office of the holy ministry at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne, In...

Rev. Eric Brown has assembled a bunch of pithy quotes by our beloved professor the Rev. Dr. Tim Quill (shown left). I took Lutheran Worship ...

Does this ever happen to you while putting tabs in your Septuagint? When I got to Obadiah, I got this little tune stuck in my head. Hey, w...

A powerful scene from Casablanca , which is even more poignant when one considers the words of the anthem... especially the part about spil...

Today, the Rev. Matt Harrison was elected the 13th president of The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. He is a conservative, confessional ...