Susan's Pendulum

The Obama campaign is deeply distressed over the mean, vicious, dirty, low-down, scummy lies that the McCain campaign is spreading. Whateve...

Claire (all of a whoppin' age 5 at the time) told her mommy a couple of months ago that, one day, she just pretended she was outgoing in...

The ad came out on Friday. McCain "admits he still doesn't know how to use a computer, can't send an e-mail,..." The AP...

Being in 1 John 4 for Bible class right now, gnosticism came up. (For those who don't like to follow links, gnosticism is a belief in ...

Somebody asked about pietism in Bible class the other day. Pastor explained it in many and various ways -- all of them very good. But I am...

My friend Ed was asking about cantaloupes a couple of weeks ago. He's got a lot. Mine appeared to be doing well. Seems to be a great ...

Knowing I would be out of town on primary day, I had requested an absentee ballot. When the ballot arrived, the only contested election on ...

Today's Bible story was from Leviticus 9, the consecration of the priests. God told Moses to tell Aaron what to do, what to sacrifice, ...

And here's one reason why big families are great: ... enough people to play Apples to Apples with!

I wanted to go, but we didn't. The weather had been rainy, and it was cool, and Maggie tends to get sick easily, and Nathan is still re...

I went to two services on Sunday. We went to a Labor Day party with friends on Monday -- lots of chatting. Started reading aloud another b...

Nathan is still looking, but has a good lead for a one-year job at sem (for the next school year while he is on leave from classes). Philip...

Been running errands this morning, thus the radio has been on, thus I've been hearing what's going on "out there" in the w...

Dang it. There for a while they (particularly Fred Thompson) almost had me starting to like John McCain. Yup, the same John McCain whose n...

The people built a golden calf and worshiped it. God was angry. He threatened to wipe 'em out. This incited Moses to claim the promi...

When a young mom takes her toddlers and pre-schoolers for a walk, the mom does not get exercise. She is taking the kids on a walk for the g...

A friend of mine wrote recently about Excellence in Mediocrity . I agree so heartily with what he said about how we idolize ourselves and o...

I am married to SUCH a smart guy. When we were living at the parsonage, and there were problems that the trustees couldn't fix, Gary wo...

It's funny. I write this thing primarily for the purpose of keeping in contact with family members and dear friends, as well as for the...

The distribution hymn this morning was LSB 566 (aka TLH 373). Kneeling at the altar rail this morning, the words being sung were some of th...