Category Postcards from Palookaville

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Marquart on Politics

Here’s another quotation from Marquart, this time on the language of `politics:’ Church politics, like beauty, is largely in the eye of the beholder.  My “politics” is likely to be somebody else’s “responsible leadership” and vice versa.  It all depends…

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An Apology

Readers of Ref21 will know that, given my understanding of the importance of the church and her courts, I don’t like trials by blog, petition, or tabloid press.  When someone has an issue with an office bearer in their denomination,…

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An Apology

Readers of Ref21 will know that, given my understanding of the importance of the church and her courts, I don’t like trials by blog, petition, or tabloid press.  When someone has an issue with an office bearer in their denomination,…

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Nothing new under the sun

On the recommendation of Peter Hastie, I obtained a copy of Kurt E Marquardt’s Anatomy of an Explosion: Missouri in Lutheran Perspective, an account of the amazing confessional resurgence in the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church in the 1960s and 70s. …

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Nothing new under the sun

On the recommendation of Peter Hastie, I obtained a copy of Kurt E Marquardt’s Anatomy of an Explosion: Missouri in Lutheran Perspective, an account of the amazing confessional resurgence in the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church in the 1960s and 70s. …

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Ring dem bells!

A student brought this news story to my attention.  What is it with these “non-sectarian” established churches that they find orthodox Christianity to be so problematic when it comes to getting people interested in — ahem — orthodox Christianity?  First…

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Ring dem bells!

A student brought this news story to my attention.  What is it with these “non-sectarian” established churches that they find orthodox Christianity to be so problematic when it comes to getting people interested in — ahem — orthodox Christianity?  First…

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PhD opportunities?

Mrs Peel just sent me this link on a whole new branch of doctoral studies: here.  Should restore the confidence in the system of any who feel that the post-Thatcherite Gradgrinds of this world are turning education into a downgraded,…