2021-01(Jan)-31(Sun)—1700PST

The injudicious comments of some mean very little to me personally — there’s nothing anyone (pastor or otherwise) is going to do to drive me away from Lutheranism; rather, I am concerned for those who are new to the faith or who are just exploring it for the first time.

2021-01(Jan)-31(Sun)—1213PST

You pastors who constantly attack those you perceive to be on your political Right will — soon enough — find yourselves with no allies in a hostile world, and though you will not have earned that hostility by speaking the truth, you will yet deserve it.

2021-01(Jan)-30(Sat)—1606PST

Admittedly, I am probably not (in debate) the nicest person you will ever meet.

However, I challenge anyone who reads this to find something I’ve said that was factually untrue — bonus points if you find something that I knew was untrue.

2021-01(Jan)-28(Thu)—1457PST

The Germans were not, in either war, avatars of metaphysical evil, and the same holds for the Russians (even though they fought for a brutally evil Communist regime). It is the absolute worst of jingoism that would fail, at this distance, to note the nuances.