Susan's Pendulum

The two best services of the year are last night's and tonight's. Behold the life-giving cross, on which hung the salvation of the w...

Some of my friends say that justification not all-important. They think there are other things we need to talk about; they seem to agree wit...

A lot of confessional folks advocate fasting for Lent. Sounds like a nice idea in theory. But I can't imagine how it would play out in...

This morning at Matins, we were reading and discussing tonight's Gospel (John 13). Kantor wondered why Jesus said it was a "new...

When I was in kindergarten I learned: Summer is when it's hot, things are growing in your garden, and you get to go swimming. Fall is w...

Probably lots of us heard the big news from last week about the study on day care. The story reported: "Youngsters who had quality ch...

Bible class ended late that Sunday 18 years ago. As it so happens, there must've been something going on in the congregation that I was ...

My computer is nearly five years old, and when I bought it, it wasn't a state-of-the-art machine, but one of the el-cheapo models. It...

Courtesy of our parents who sent checks for Gary's birthday presents, we went out to dinner today with the family. Yummy! Red Lobster!...

Gary picked up another movie last night. He prevailed upon me to watch for a bit. The kids and I needed to do some schoolwork, but one of ...

Call the cops. Have them come arrest me. My family is SO abused. Do you know what my poor miserable husband endured this week? He didn'...

Short movie that we managed to make time for last time, partially by turning it on during supper. Brian's Song is a movie I saw when i...

My husband tells me there's an interesting discussion going on over on Pr Petersen's blog . I'd love to go look, but laundry an...

There's a difference of opinion within our synod about whether the "third use of the law" needs to be specifically and pointed...

Bummers! Chris left tonight! My plan was for Sanjayah, Haley, Chris R, or Phil to leave soon. I didn't care which order, but it was ok...

The organist wasn't at church on Sunday. So tonight she was asking Pastor how it went: if there had been a substitute or if we'd su...

We spent the day at the Cleft Palate Clinic. We saw an x-ray video of Maggie speaking, and we saw the aerial view of the top of the back of...

The doctor needs me to go to the hospital for some tests. She couldn't get me in to the local hospital today. But tomorrow I have to b...

Mom: Maggie, you didn't finish your apple. You ate less than half of it. Get back in here and eat the whole thing so it's not wast...

On those few warm days we had a couple of weeks ago, I noticed that the centipedes had gotten really bad in the basement again. But then we...