Archive for January, 2008
Be Inspired. Stay Informed.
The seminary admission office is delighted to announce a new monthly electronic newsletter called ePilgrimage. This is our latest project to help us stay in touch with inquirers, friends and supporters. It is a supplement to the quarterly printed and mailed version called simply Pilgrimage and that will [...]
My Favorite Blog About Blogging
As I was recently working on creating a new blog, I spent a fair amount of time researching the art and science of blogging. There are oodles of websites and resources to learn from. One blog that I’d never seen before, but now can’t live without is called Copyblogger by Brian Clark. [...]
Low Tech Utility for Cleaning Your Monitor
Here’s a must-have utility.
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The Sad Death of Actor Heath Ledger
Heath Ledger’s most critically acclaimed performance was for the recent Brokeback Mountain, a film I did not happen to see. But I could tell from several earlier performances such as The Patriot and Monster’s Ball that this was a young artist of considerable promise. It is with some sadness then that I write [...]
Is the Bible Reliable?
Haven’t you heard this before from non-religious people? “Oh, the Bible has been copied and translated so many times in the past 2ooo years, no one can really know what the original manuscripts said.”
What is frustrating is that this critique is made so often and is simply accepted as common knowledge when the science [...]
Prospective Seminary Students May Win a Free Lutheran Service Book
Prospective Students! How would you like to win a copy of the Lutheran Service Book, the Personal / Gift edition and become a published blogger in the process?
We are inviting Concordia University students as well as other prospective seminary applicants to submit brief answers to this question: “What is your favorite hymn in LSB and [...]
Erin Bode Wows the Crowd
St. Louis songstress, Erin Bode, was a huge hit at the banquet this evening at the Grand Wayne Center here in Fort Wayne. Every year, Concordia Theological Seminary hosts its annual Exegetical and Confessional Symposia. This year the topic was on the Atonement. And every year, the Thursday night of Symposia week [...]
Voting for Best Religion Blog
As you may know, we’ve launched a new blog from the Admission Department of Concordia Theological Seminary. It’s called Concordia TheoBLOGical Seminary. Cute, eh? We’re trying hard to use that new blog to bring attention to our school and to hopefully inspire prospective students to inquire.
If you have 2 minutes, you could [...]
Paying for Praise??
Do you ever wish you had your own personal cheerleader?
Check out the latest post at Concordia TheoBLOGical Seminary.
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Not Just Any God Will Do
January 6 is the Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord. The word “epiphany” means that something is revealed. Epiphany is a season which focuses on the manifestations of Jesus’ divine nature. God reveals His glory most supremely in the flesh and blood of a man, Jesus Christ.
The Gospel reading for this day is Matthew [...]
