In This Issue
Reflections of a Recovering Praise Band Leader – Burnell F. Eckardt Jr.
Banality: An Enemy of the Gospel – David H. Petersen
Why Rubrics? (Continued) – Mark P. Braden
Review Essay: A Conversation with a Respected Interlocutor Concerning the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar – John R. Stephenson
Who Gives the Wages? – Karl F. Fabrizius
Sermons for Quasimodogeniti, Misericordia Domini, and Jubilate



In a discussion about praying to the dead, a Roman Catholic FB friend was critical of a Protestant FB friend. They went back and forth while I scooped popcorn into my mouth and enjoyed the show. Full contact theology is way more entertaining than MMA fights that inevitably become grappling on the floor, and you don’t have to pay for cable. Real theological debate is more lively, like the old Big Time Wrestling that my cousins and I used to watch on Saturday mornings.