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Since I know so many NASCAR fans read my blog.
As this weekend is the Aaron’s Dream Weekend at Talladega, sportscasters around the country will do doubt be telling America about the goings-on in “Talladayga.”
It has never, never, never been “Talladayga.”  The only people who pronounce it “Talladayga” are the people who have never been to [...]

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I may have to add this one to the Eucharistic Bread Recipes page:
Luther Seminary Communion Bread
We had this one today.  I wanted to try a new one since we have a new wooden paten and a new wooden chalice.  My Roman Catholic and Episcopal friends are scratching their heads right now and asking themselves,”Did he [...]

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For those who are just finding this series, I am responding to the charge that liturgical Protestant churches are inevitably “on the road to Rome.” Those who say this often cite as “proof” the phenomenon of people who are initially attracted to such churches who eventually end up in the Roman Catholic church.  I contend [...]

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TiVO people:  Spoiler alert!

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Scenario 2:  General Liturgical Cluelessness
This scenario doesn’t describe any particular “flavor” of evangelical/Reformed church I’ve observed so much as it describes a characteristic common to many churches which are not from a long liturgical tradition (such as the Anglicans, Lutherans, etc.) but who are trying to “do liturgy”:  a general cluelessness.

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Allow me to take a break from my current series of posts to comment on tonight’s AI (that’s why most of you read this little ol’ blog anyway, isn’t it?):
Allison – MAJOR pitch problems!  What were Paula and Simon smoking?  Was she ever ON pitch?
Anoop – Quite good this week, I thought.  Consistently in tune [...]

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OK, so why would a dyed-in-the-wool Protestant evagelical who longs for liturgical worship, and who finds liturgical worship in a Presbyterian church somewhere, nevertheless “jump ship” for Rome (or Canterbury)?  Does that “prove” that liturgical Protestants are “on the road to Rome”?
No, but it may prove that a lot of Reformed people who try to [...]

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This Easter Sunday afternoon, my wife and I were discussing that we have each heard of friends and acquaintances who were confirmed in the Roman Catholic church at Easter Vigil services this weekend.  This conversation between us has prompted this series of posts.
I need to preface what I say with this:  these are my thoughts, [...]

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The name “Good Friday” seems odd to some, but not when we remember that the words “God” and “good” are related to one another in all the Germanic languages (of which English is one):  God is good.  God is the source of all goodness.  God defines and is himself the very definition of goodness.  Thus, [...]

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It still surprises me how many Christians have no idea what Maundy Thursday is, when it is, or (most importantly) why it is.  Just the other day someone in the community whom I know to be a churchgoer asked me what events we had planned for this week at the church (this person attends a [...]

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