As Lutherans, we walk a fine line, theologically speaking.  We are very careful to maintain doctrinal paradoxes while not falling into errors of one side or the other.  It’s kind of fun, in discussions, that we can just as easily take either side of an argument in an attempt to bring that paradoxical tension about and get back on that fine line.

Sometimes we fail.

My kid’s not entirely normal either.  I dragged him out to for Ghost Rider in the theater with my high school youth group.  It was a 9pm show - already past his normal bedtime. I figured I’d just pay for him to have an expensive nap.  He was glued to the screen.  “Did you see that man’s HEAD was on FIRE??  Johnny Blaze is SO COOL!!”  A few days later, he confessed to me that he was afraid of the giant pickles in the Veggie Tales movie they had watched at preschool.  And I really wanted to go see Twilight, so on a whim I took him to that too.  I had read the books so I knew there wasn’t any sex or serious violence.  He loved that one and is very proud of the fact that he has seen a PG-13 movie at age 6.  He’s also a huge fan of The Nightmare Before Christmas, and when the commercials said there was another one by the same director (not that he knows what a movie director does), he was all over it.

Mary?

VATICAN CITY, FEB. 11, 2009 (Zenit.org).-
Benedict XVI is inviting youth, ill people and newlyweds to entrust their lives to Mary today as the Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes...

When you’re in San Antonio for the Sola conference this summer (Registation closes soon - hurry and get signed up!), you should stop by the HaShem Artwork studios so you can view with your very own eyes the only, true, authentic re-creations of the two stone tablets engraved with the 10 Commandments - in the original ancient language and signed with “The Deity’s” own Name!

“Unlike some mythological artifact from pagan antiquity bearing some ancient curse by some obscure or unknown god, these Two Stone Tablets, like the ones that Moses would have carried off Mt. Sinai, bear the ancient and actual blessing promised in every Bible ever published, whether Jewish or Christian, of the Deity worshiped by its believers,” claims artist, A.E.Tracy Potts, who re-created the Two Stone Tablets.

This past week, Pr. Borghardt asked me to do a “Moment with Madre” for HT Radio.  Our “moment” turned into the bulk of the show.  That’ll happen when you’re talking about domestic abuse and dating violence.  Listen to the interview here.

In the show, Pr. Borghardt asked me to provide some resources and links for anyone who wanted more information.  In the interests of expediency for getting this post up, here it is: