or "Why I love Anthony Esolen"
or "Why I think intelligent Christians should read Touchstone or at least the blog"
Pseudo=false, gamy=marriage
Pseudogamy 101: Divorce Mentality
Pseudogamy 102: Willful Childlessness
Pseudogamy 103: Cohabitation
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
Pray for Our Brothers & Sisters in the SID
We drove down to Kentucky Friday evening for my brother's college graduation. We drove along I-57 after what the National Weather Service described as an "inland hurricane" tore across Illinois. My parents, who drove down ahead of us, were stopped on the interstate as crews cleared trees that had blown across the road. We came through in the dark, so we didn't see the damage that surrounded us, but we heard about iton the radio stations. Passing through Marion was remarkable because, except for a few lights atop the hospital, the town was completely black.
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:
They say it was an “inland hurricane” that swept through Southern Illinois. One individual, a member of Immanuel, Murphysboro, was killed by the storm when a tree fell through his house. Please pray for Pastor Mayes and the members of Immanuel as they mourn this loss.
We had some property damage in Murphysboro, Marion, and Carbondale, but by far the greatest damage to property was at Christ, Jacob. Attached are a couple of pictures of the school at Jacob. As you can see, the gymnasium was totally destroyed and a tree fell on the school itself. No one was hurt, God be praised, at Jacob, since they had been listening to the weather radio and had all the children and teachers huddled in an inner room when the storm struck their building.
Please raise a prayer of thanksgiving to the Lord and ask His further protection and blessing for all those affected.
You will hear more from us soon.
Blessings,
+Herb Mueller
Several of our congregations in that area were affected, as well as countless others. Keep them in your prayers.
From SID President Mueller:
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:
They say it was an “inland hurricane” that swept through Southern Illinois. One individual, a member of Immanuel, Murphysboro, was killed by the storm when a tree fell through his house. Please pray for Pastor Mayes and the members of Immanuel as they mourn this loss.
We had some property damage in Murphysboro, Marion, and Carbondale, but by far the greatest damage to property was at Christ, Jacob. Attached are a couple of pictures of the school at Jacob. As you can see, the gymnasium was totally destroyed and a tree fell on the school itself. No one was hurt, God be praised, at Jacob, since they had been listening to the weather radio and had all the children and teachers huddled in an inner room when the storm struck their building.
Please raise a prayer of thanksgiving to the Lord and ask His further protection and blessing for all those affected.
You will hear more from us soon.
Blessings,
+Herb Mueller
Dean in His Tux
Some of you asked to see a picture of Dean in his tux that his grandmother bought him for his aunt's wedding. Well, here he is.
Monday, April 13, 2009
26.2
I did it. Barely.
I stopped running 3 weeks ago because of shin splints.
Then all Holy Week I had (still do) a very painful ear infection.
But while running, it was my lack of fitness, not the shin splints or ear infection (those were controlled with Advil, orthotics, and cortizone from the PT) that contributed to my slow, slow time. But I can't say what it is because then you'll figure out it was only 10 minutes faster than when my wife ran a marathon 2 years ago. Humbling.
I stopped running 3 weeks ago because of shin splints.
Then all Holy Week I had (still do) a very painful ear infection.
But while running, it was my lack of fitness, not the shin splints or ear infection (those were controlled with Advil, orthotics, and cortizone from the PT) that contributed to my slow, slow time. But I can't say what it is because then you'll figure out it was only 10 minutes faster than when my wife ran a marathon 2 years ago. Humbling.
Easter in the Octogon: Right Shape, Wrong Idea
The Post Dispatch had a front-page article today about Tom Skiles, pastor of (the appropriately-named) SOSChurch in St. Louis. The church began a month-long sermon series on Jesus the Ultimate Fighter on Easter. The story featured a picture of Tom and his wife constructing the chain-link octogon replica of a UFC arena.
Right shape, wrong idea.
An octogon is the correct shape for Easter, but not the octogon wherein you might get your face punched in. Worse. The octogon of Easter is where you'll get drowned to death: the Baptismal Font, traditionally 8-sided to confess that in Baptism is the beginning of the New Creation, the 8th day.
Here's the RFT's interview with Skiles.
Right shape, wrong idea.
An octogon is the correct shape for Easter, but not the octogon wherein you might get your face punched in. Worse. The octogon of Easter is where you'll get drowned to death: the Baptismal Font, traditionally 8-sided to confess that in Baptism is the beginning of the New Creation, the 8th day.
Here's the RFT's interview with Skiles.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Passiontide Ceremonies
Where did the Gloria Patri go? Why did the processional crucifix and the altar wall cross get veiled in cloth? Petersen explains.
These ceremonies teach what no modern day chancel drama could (and I say that as one who's written and performed a chancel drama in a chancel...yes, yes, revoco!). Things that have been fairly consistent for a year suddenly disappear. And it's all come upon us suddenly. First we gave up singing "Alleluia" until we sing it either eternally at the Lamb's Wedding Banquet or at the Easter feast. Then we stopped singing the Gloria in Excelsis, the song of the Angels. Then gave up having full bellies. Now we've plunged even deeper into this penitential season.
And we're not done yet. On Maundy Thursday, the altar will be stripped bare (as if to mock us after having been draped again in joyous white paraments!). Good Friday will revel in black and darkness. And Holy Saturday will end with the transition from mourning into joy--from Lent into Easter--as the sun sets and we rejoice in the risen Son.
These ceremonies teach what no modern day chancel drama could (and I say that as one who's written and performed a chancel drama in a chancel...yes, yes, revoco!). Things that have been fairly consistent for a year suddenly disappear. And it's all come upon us suddenly. First we gave up singing "Alleluia" until we sing it either eternally at the Lamb's Wedding Banquet or at the Easter feast. Then we stopped singing the Gloria in Excelsis, the song of the Angels. Then gave up having full bellies. Now we've plunged even deeper into this penitential season.
And we're not done yet. On Maundy Thursday, the altar will be stripped bare (as if to mock us after having been draped again in joyous white paraments!). Good Friday will revel in black and darkness. And Holy Saturday will end with the transition from mourning into joy--from Lent into Easter--as the sun sets and we rejoice in the risen Son.
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