I Love This!

If I listened to this all the time at the office, I would be more centered.
TOday is the Feast of SS Cletus and Marcellinus. Read about them here.

Why Am I Lutheran?

Simple: Someone Invited Me to Church.
An invitation from a friend in college to join her at the Lutheran Church across the street for a Lenten devotion is one of the first steps that led me to this place. I am a little suspicious of all those church growth-ers out there who come up with all [...]

What Am I Scared Of?

Two words: Downward Mobility.
The opposite of what culture teaches us and yet the very call of the Gospel.

So Just What Am I Anyway?

I am nearing the anniversary of my ordination to the ministry of Word and Sacrament in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It has been a year of challenges and of blessings, one which I will probably never forget. Though Lutherans do not believe that a “change” happens to a person when they are ordained, [...]

Things I have learned living in Louisiana

1. Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air
2. There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in LOUISIANA.
3. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in LOUISIANA plus a couple no one’s seen before.
4. If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.
5. Onced [...]

ABC meme

Tip of the fedora to *Christopher.
Accent: Southern, an accent that deepens with each beer I drink.
Booze: Beer. Though I do enjoy scotch quite a bit.
Chore I Hate: Cat litter duty.
Dog or Cat: 3 cats
Essential Electronics: laptop, stereo, cell phone, pda
Favorite Cologne(s): I don’t really do cologne very often.
Gold or Silver: silver
Hometown: [...]

Yea for Me!

I bought a mandolin. Report at 11:00 after weather.

Post-Easter Decompression

I think it is funny when I walk into the office on Easter Monday and people ask, “What are you doing here?” I am working, of course. I can’t take Mondays off as a general rule. It throws the rhythm of my week off. Easter Monday is no different.
So here I am in the [...]

Expensive Hobby

Music is becoming quite the expensive hobby around our house. Little LP is up to three guitars (an Ibanez acoustic, a Strat and a Les Paul like the one to the left). I only have two basses, an upright and an electric. I’ve been playing the electric a lot more lately simply because I have [...]

What I Learned About Myself This Lent, Part I.

I started writing here about a year ago, and a great deal of what I have written has revolved around my interest in liturgical theology and my hopes of pursuing a PhD in that field.
I’ve decided that I will NOT be doing a PhD in liturgical theology. The list below is by no means [...]