Revs Bradley Schmeling and Darin Easler reinstated on ELCA roster The ELCA message to Kids: Kids: Don’t think about the diseases — although this behavior will reduce your life expectancy by 20+ years. Cigarettes will only reduce your life expectancy by 10-12 years. Kids: Mothers are unnecessary because two men are equally ideal as a […]
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The Ark: Another Dig, Another Discovery
The archeologists came Two by two Finding the ark It’s what they do In 2010, 2006, 2004, 1998, 1986, and so on. As Paul Zimansky, archeologist at Stony Brook University NY told National Geographic: “I don’t know of any expedition that went looking for the ark and didn’t find it.” And Eric Cline, biblical archeologist […]
“Fight” – Inerrancy Fails to Unite the LCMS
Two camps of biblicists will contend at the LC-MS Convention in Houston, July 10-17. President Gerald Kieschnick (755 nominating votes) is the underdog to Rev. Matthew Harrison (1,332 votes). Both Kieschnick and Harrison hold to verbal inerrancy: 1. Kieschnick is an inerrantist. His 10-page response to the 2009 ELCA vote on gay sex: “We affirm […]
Rogness: “State legislators are to be theologians”
Sensational story! Did ELCA Bishop Peter Rogness really say this? Of course not. But in a letter to the editor, Rogness anoints himself as a morally superior lobbyist to the state legislature. He announces his special concern for “the poor, the vulnerable, and the marginalized.” He claims unnamed “faith communities” hold to what is “just” […]
Common Date for Easter?
This year Western Christians and Eastern Orthodox celebrated Easter on the same date. This is unusual. It will happen in 2011, 2014, and 2017. Huge ecumenical efforts are being made to produce a common date for Easter so that Christians can have a common witness. (Read more here.) Which date should it be? Is it […]