Tomorrow marks my 15th year of ordained service to the Church. Wikipedia tells me that fifteen is a “superabundant number,” but the article linked there confuses me. It also tells me it is a “triangular number” because you make make a triangle with 15 parts. It tells me that in Hebrew you write 15 as…
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“The music seemed to come from all around us,” said one of the participants at the recent “Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival”. The music festival held underwater at Looe Key Reef featured special underwater speakers that blasted some “underwater hits” like “Yellow Submarine” from the Beatles and “Under the Sea” from the Little Mermaid soundtrack.…
During our road trip down from seeing my parents, one of my girls started asking questions about baptism as we were talking about baptism. It went something like this: Kid: “Hey daddy, do we need to baptize Dixie?” (the family dog). Jay: “God only tells us to baptize humans, so we only baptize humans.” (Matthew…
This Saturday at 11am at Epiphany Lutheran Church ( 8300 Deer Lake S, Tallahassee, FL 32312 ) there’s going to be something great happening, Seminarian Tim Barber will be ordained and installed at Epiphany Lutheran. This is a BIG deal. It’s a big deal for Tim, it’s a big deal for Epiphany, it’s a big…
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…
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,…