Archive for August, 2009

Lost and Found in Translation

Monday, August 24th, 2009

 

I complain that laymen don’t read the Lutheran Confessions, but can you really blame them? Below is a comforting quote from the Apology, but in the Triglotta it’s in Apology Article III in Tappert and Kolb it’s in Article IV and in the Reader’s Edition it’s in Article V.  I present them in the order that they came out from 1921 to 2005. (more…)

Another Letter from the Trashcan

Monday, August 10th, 2009

 

First let me say, when you’re the editor of any publication, you get to choose which letters to the editor to publish.  Below you will find one Logia chose not to. (more…)

Dressing to Confess

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

  

The Summer 2009 issue of Higher Things has an article entitled “What’s With the Collar?”  It makes some fine points favoring the wearing of a clerical collar which I do six days a week, but I am being pushed towards wearing a shirt and tie or perhaps even a black polo shirt with a cross or fish emblem on it. And it’s the laity who is pushing me.  Let me explain how. (more…)