St. Antony’s Cave

What to do when you are completely wrong?  I didn’t realize this till the two comments below.  I could just remove this post, but the damage may have already been done.  If you haven’t read this post, just skip to the comments.  They are right.  I am wrong.  In the Greek it’s always you drink (plural), and literally it’s “you drink out of it all.”  It turns our my delicate dance is a polka or perhaps a mosh pit.

  I realize that thees and thous have as much chance of coming back where they’ve been lost as fins on cars do, but where they are let them remain particularly in the Divine Service.  As there is a rhythm in the versicles and responses, so there is a dance between ye and you. (more…)

This is another one of those stories that has words one is tempted to use as double entendres.  I will resist because the story is about what is not being said. (more…)

“Mamma said there’d be days like this,”  I probably first heard that phrase when The Shirelles released the song in 1961 but I don’t remember hearing it till 1976.  It was March and I was in the mountains of New Mexico on a Ranger training exercise. (more…)

It started with the self-proclaimed “Digital Goddess” Kim Komando.  It was exacerbated by sports commentators saying this or that player was a “god.”  It burst into flames when the PBS cook referred to another as the “goddess of flambeau.”

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Everyone knows Santayana’s quote that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, but I prefer Russians to Spaniards.  A Russian proverb says, “Dwell on the past and you will lose an eye; forget the past and you will lose both eyes.”  I’d rather lose one eye than two, so I point you to the past. (more…)

I was going to title this “St. Louis Seminary President Throws Fort Wayne Seminary Under the Bus,” but I thought it too long, and that was before I realized that wasn’t the worst of it. (more…)

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…)

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…)

The following is part of an interview NPR aired on July 7, 2009 between “Marketplace’s” Kai Ryssdal and Google Chairman of the Board and CEO Eric Schmidt, and it should scare the tar out of us all. (more…)