Gottesblog

Esolen continues to vie for the title of 21st century Chesterton.

People learn by mimicry. We learn language, manners, facial expressions, morals, everything, from a very young age simply by repeating what we see in our parents.

Lutheran parishes hither and yon are yoking themselves to American Evangelicalism in worship, administration, outlook, and, most importantly, in language. To help you navigate the new world we happily present our first Gottesdienst the Game Show game: Roller Coaster or Worship Service? where you try to determine if a given word refers to a roller coaster or an actual worship service in an actual church somewhere in America. 

The first issue of the 2013 Synod Convention's Today's Business is out and with it the resolution Committee 4 came up with regarding AC XIV. It begins on page 90.

I got word today that CPH will indeed be offering full color bulletin covers for the Historic Lectionary featuring classic artwork starting with the 2013-14 church year. This is a project that lovers of the Historic Lectionary from all corners have been seeking for some time and I'm very glad that CPH has been so responsive to those requests. The project is in the capable hands of the same team that gave us the Treasury of Daily Prayer. As they get the apparatus in place to take orders, I'll post information in this space.

That is, the one you got in the mail from CSL: it has the improper dates of Pentecost and Trinity Sunday. If you hang that one in the sacristy for the ladies' reference regarding parament color: be on your guard to see white when you show up on Sunday...