Quite frankly, I had had enough of the French and the Egyptians. My Roman cities were quite the prize for both empires; both wanted their religions to be the dominant faith in our little world. And so while I continued to work on launching a satellite into orbit, France and…
So lately, I’ve been focusing on the various writing projects that I worked on when I was younger. I kind of like this trend, so I’m going to keep on going and talk about the stories that I wrote when I was in high school. In middle school, I had…
I had such high hopes and really, I’m not off by much. See, here’s the thing. My current writing project can be divided up into five parts (I’m actually calling them “acts” in the book itself). For some reason, Acts 2 and 3 took a really long time, but Act…
One easy way of riling Lutherans (well, some of them, anyway) is to whisper the word katolisch at them. That’s “Catholic” in German. Given the rather antagonistic relationship between those two branches of Christendom, it’s easy to understand why we Lutherans aren’t always keen on being identified as Roman Catholic. Personally,…
So usually, when I write one of these reviews, I take a moment to opine and give a little one shot summary of what my thoughts are. Well, I just got back from seeing Doctor Strange and it’s taking a little while to unbend my mind, so you’ll forgive me…
Well, what a week! I’m starting to feel the momentum build. I don’t know why it took me so long to get to my story’s “halfway point,” but it felt like I would never get there. But now that I’ve reached it, it feels like the story is just pouring…
You’d think that, since this is the actual anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation, I’d have some long, drawn out post as part of my on-going series about Lutheranism. Yeah, I don’t. Part of that is because, well, I already wrote a post about what the whole nailing-of-the-95-theses was all about.…
Well, I kind of suspected this week wasn’t going to be all that great. Last Wednesday, I hit a milestone in my work-in-progress. I hit the “halfway point” in the story (well, that’s what I consider it. Upon further reflection, it may be more of a 60% point or so;…
Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve discussed the Lutheran sacraments, namely Baptism and Holy Communion. For Lutherans, these are not symbolic gestures, but ways that God has chosen to distribute the grace that is ours through Christ. Baptism adopts us into His family. Communion is the way He feeds…
Last time I was in the Confessional, I shared the story of how, when I was a kid, I drew horrible comic books that I somehow deluded myself into thinking would be my path to publication. But eventually, I came to realize that I simply stunk up the joint as…