As we head into the extended Thanksgiving weekend, here are a few bits of miscellany. Under the category, “Much ado about nothing”, The ELCA NE Iowa synod council made news this week by passing two resolutions contrary in spirit to the actions of...

Although I was registered with press credentials for the recent Call to Action (CTA) Conference in Milwaukee, I was not able to attend due to a family emergency.  However, my registration has opened my inbox to a wide array of items from the...

Please indulge me with some more Casablanca analogies.  Last week, I sarcastically used iconic Casablanca movie lines to criticize the Lutheran Core announcement that they are taking their football and leaving.  Well, that’s not exactly what they...

Copernicus expressed the view that the earth circled around the sun and not vice versa.  The 17th century astronomer Galileo Galilei agreed: Galileo’s championing of Copernicanism was controversial within his lifetime, when a large majority of...

In the classic movie, Casablanca, the Claude Rains character speaks the immortal line, “I’m shocked … SHOCKED to see that there’s gambling going on in this establishment … Round up the usual suspects.”  Of course, the humor lies in the...