Pastor Steven Tibbetts introduces a new blog, Lutherans Persisting, by Michael Root of the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary. Root began with this post: The ELCA is now in crisis.  On the most obvious level, the decisions to permit same-sex blessings and to permit ordinations of persons in such same-sex relations will lead many individuals and…

A pastor’s reflections on missed opportunities at Kennedy’s funeral. The homily–thoroughly Pelagian; no preaching of the gospel, instead patting Teddy on the back for all his “good works.”

The Vatican has rejected the Maryknoll order’s chosen superior for the US because he is a lay brother, and not a priest, demanding that in orders of laity and priests, only priests can be elected superior.

Monte Sahlin has a report on a study of Jehovah’s Witnesses.