This past Tuesday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office approved a long dispute over the definite article – that is, the word “The”. “The” Ohio State University just this past Tuesday won its appeal to an earlier decision that did not allow them to trademark “The” in the name of the university. To those Buckeyes…
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This week, a team from University Lutheran will be going to Kenya, to the Point of Grace Academy in Kisumu Kenya. While the team is there, they are going to be working with the school as well as helping run a medical clinic for the students and those associated with the school. They will be…
Not many of you probably follow Nebraska football – but if you did, you would know that there is a tradition of releasing red balloons after the first touchdown of a home game. That tradition will stop this year for the first time since the 1940’s. The tradition has long been criticized for its potential…
As I write this, there is a stranger in the library. Ok, maybe “stranger” is a little too strong. There is an alumnus in the library, a guy named Bryan. Bryan was here at University Lutheran back in the 1990’s under Pastor Tom Dohrman. Bryan is himself a pastor at a church in Virginia now,…
When I arrived at FSU back in 2007, one of the names that I heard pretty regularly was “Myron Rolle”. Myron was playing safety for the Seminoles football team those years. While Myron was here, he qualified for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford where he earned a masters of…
Today is May the 5th, Cinco de Mayo if you’re saying that in Spanish. It’s a day when the Mexican restaurant near me braces for incoming hordes of people ordering tacos and margaritas. Ask them why they are there and they will just say, “well, it’s Cinco de Mayo.” Ask them why that makes any difference,…
This morning as I was walking across campus I encountered a mom who was trying to get someplace — the problem was that she was trying to get there via the walkway that runs between the Health Center and the Student Success Center, and then trying to make a left turn onto the Woodward legacy…
Our most recent Bible study is called “Paradise to Promised Land” where we are looking at the history of the Old Testament. Here are the Bible study sheets: Week One: 1 Paradise to Promised Land – Survey Week Two: 2 Paradise to Promised Land – Torah Week Three: 3 Paradise to Promised Land – Frontier…
We just had Easter Sunday, but I’m going to ask you to think 40 days into the future from that event – to the moment of Ascension. In that moment, recorded in Acts 1, we hear Jesus tell His disciples that they will receive power from the Holy Spirit and that they will be “My…
“I’m not ashamed of you, I’m proud of you!….I just don’t want anyone to see you.” That great line comes from the fun 1994 movie, “The Little Rascals” where Alfalfa, a little boy who has a membership in the “He Man Woman Haters Club”, is trying to hide away his would-be girlfriend in a closet…