One of the hardest Bible passages for a Lutheran like me to hear comes from the book of James: What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without…
So this year, Marvel Studios wrapped up Phase Two of their crazy multi-film jaunt when they released Ant-Man. What has astounded me is that, for the most part, they haven’t really produced any major clunkers. I mean, yes, some of the movies haven’t clicked the way they should have, but…
Okay, time for a little peek under the hood here at my blog. When I do these Monday-morning devotionals, nine times out of ten I use the pericopes that my denomination, The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, uses for worship. Every week, there’s an Old Testament reading, an Epistle reading, a Gospel…
As some of you may know, I’ve been a diehard fan of Amish Vampires in Space since it was published. Yes, it started as an inside joke among Christian speculative fiction writers, but then the incredible talented Kerry Nietz wrote a story that took a seeming B-movie premise worthy of…
This is post 5 of 34 in the series “Geek Confessional” Confessing my deepest, darkest geek secrets. Geek Confessional: I’ve got (a lot of) game Geek Confessional: I’ve written for Deep Space Nine, Lois & Clark, and The X-Files (sort of) Geek Confessional Update: I have the scripts! Geek Confessional:…
Hey, everybody. Mondays are usually when I do a little devotional thought on my blog. I know that I’ve been a little inconsistent as of late, so I decided to make it up to you. Over the summer, I’ve been doing a sermon series on the Fruit of the Spirit,…
So this past Monday morning, I posted kind of a cryptic announcement on my Facebook page: It was a late night last night, but it was worth it, for now, the time has come to kill some dragons.Let the reader understand. Posted by John W. Otte on Monday, August 17,…
I received a fun surprise last night. I decided to do something that was, admittedly, a bit self-centered. I Googled The Hive to see if anyone had been talking about it out there. I wasn’t all that surprised to find that 99.9% of the posts were from me, but I…
This is post 4 of 34 in the series “Geek Confessional” Confessing my deepest, darkest geek secrets. Geek Confessional: I’ve got (a lot of) game Geek Confessional: I’ve written for Deep Space Nine, Lois & Clark, and The X-Files (sort of) Geek Confessional Update: I have the scripts! Geek Confessional:…
My goodness, I kind of disappeared there, didn’t I? Last time I reported in, I said that I had hit a kind of milestone in my work-in-progress, the (still!) untitled first book in a science fiction trilogy that might be called “The Iron Staff Trilogy” (although truth be told, I’m…