by social@thebtscenter.org | Oct 6, 2017 | 21stCenturyMinistry, 21stCenturyMission, DigitalMinistry, Re-mediating Religion, Themes
Lately I’ve been thinking about a passage from the Gospel of John in which Jesus reminds Peter that our youthful vigor and self-determination will always fade. “Very truly, I tell you” Jesus says, “when you were younger, you used to fasten your own belt and to go...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Jul 28, 2017 | DigitalMinistry, Websites
You may remember a commercial that DirectTV ran back in 2002, touting its then state-of-the-art DSL internet service. The ad featured a guy sitting in front of his huge desktop computer. He supposedly was able to surf online so fast that a message popped up on his...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Jun 9, 2017 | 21stCenturyBible, 21stCenturyCulture
My daughter is being confirmed this year. Now I understand why parents always say that they don’t know where the time goes. It feels like it was just yesterday that she was baptized. Now she is claiming all those baptismal promises we made on her behalf as her own. At...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Jul 28, 2016 | Websites
On July 7th I thought it had finally happened—the long foretold Zombie Apocalypse. On that day people were walking around my neighborhood, and even my church, shuffling their feet, eyes cast down at their smartphones, turning around aimlessly in circles and pointing...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Feb 5, 2016 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMinistry
I must confess that I have been a less-than-dutiful clergy colleague. In Lutheran polity, congregations are organized in small geographic clusters called conferences, and their clergy gather for monthly meetings for mutual support and, oftentimes, text studies. Good...
