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This video builds on the axiom “The Left Can’t Meme” by extension to the corollary that also applies to music videos.

One of the speakers at the National Youth Gathering gave a lecture about modern religious pluralism. And given the challenges we Christians face in an increasingly diverse society, this can be a great topic for young people.

I gave my share of criticism of the 2022 National Youth Gathering. But one thing that was a great positive was the closing Divine Service.

Congratulations to our dear colleague, the Rev. Dr. Karl Fabrizius, who retired today after 38 years of faithful service as pastor of Our Father’s Lutheran Church in Greenfield, Wisconsin!

For all of our complaints about the shenanigans, monkeyshines, and dingalingery (SMD) that goes on in our synod - especially liturgically - there is reason to be upbeat and hopeful.

In a recent post, I pointed out that sometimes there is a superfluous ritual of laying on of hands during installation services. This one goes even further by including a lay participant in the rite of manual imposition.

Critical Theory is the younger cousin to Historical Criticism, also known as the Historical-Critical Method (HCM) of Biblical hermeneutics.