Collecting My Thoughts

Subject: Squirrelly The Presbyterian church called a meeting to decide what to do about their squirrel infestation. After much prayer and c...

I don't know if Megan Rohrer is a transwoman or a transman, but Rohrer was a bishop in the Sierra Pacific ELCA (Lutheran) Synod. I say W...

We attend a liturgical service at our Lutheran Church—and we’re in the North American Lutheran Synod, which is conservative and pulled out o...

Howard Kainz, a Catholic, observes, “I was surprised in the last couple months to hear two homilies – one on the abuse crisis and cover-ups,...

  We attend the traditional service at our Lutheran church (NALC) in Upper Arlington, Ohio.  There are two other types of services—one I c...

I'm not linking back to this former Lutheran pastor's name until I check with him that it's OK. If it's not, I'll remove...

I used to be a Democrat, and voted for Bill Clinton.  I left the reservation in 2000, and some of my ire was at Hillary for her universal he...

I have now found a good translation at a Catholic site of what Pope Francis said to a Lutheran woman about taking communion at her husband...

Great sermon today by Gemechis Buba, Mission Director of the North American Lutheran Church, at Mill Run, UALC on dreams, visions and prop...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDO2LlQRnhA In 2 years (2017) we'll be celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. The cathe...

It's Lutheran Chautauqua week at Lakeside, and the preacher is Dr. Rick Barger, the president of Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus. ...

I went to Bible Study Thursday  led by Pastor Jeff Morlock of UALC and we were focusing on John 4:1-30, the lesson for this coming Sunday. B...

There are more Lutherans in Ethiopia than there are in the largest U.S. synod, ELCA. And we are so fortunate to have one in the North Americ...

Noticed this comment by the new Bishop of the ELCA, Elizabeth Eaton, who got 600 votes to Mark Hanson’s 287. “We are a church that is o...

Does your church condone killing babies? How about its insurance plan?  What organizations does it support? And end of life issues, and ma...

The Roman Catholic catechism has a 2 paragraph footnote in the explanation of the Trinity, (Article 1, Paragraph 2,  243, )which explains th...

This morning I gathered up the pieces of my 1978 Upper Arlington Lutheran Church photo directory and took them to Staples (thank you, Mitt R...

Today I was chatting with a Catholic lobbyist about the HHS Mandate. I told him I didn't think he'd see much support for the Bishop...

Eastern Christians and Western Christians make the sign of the cross differently, but this Lutheran pastor says it doesn't make any diff...