• Detail from a mural at a church-supported women’s health clinic in Santiago, Chile. “Warning! Chauvinism kills”
  • In Iraq before flying back to Kuwait, during my mobilization with the Indiana Army National Guard.
  • Sacred road along which America began to find its soul. We’re still walking that road.
  • Southern border wall near Nogales, AZ. It is common to see clothing, rope, other debris caught in the concertina wire.
  • Video worship recorded at home during the pandemic. The artwork behind me is a 19th century hand-carved relief of the incarnations of Vishnu.
  • Detail from the Cuba Friendship Urn, an odd monument wedged between overpasses and parking lots along the Potomac near the Tidal Basin in Washington, DC. Given by the Cubans in memory of the victims of the USS Maine.

This is a wildly erratic and irregular blog that, before social media, was once used much more than it is now. My goal on this blog has been simple: to offer semi-intelligent, heart-felt reflections on Christian ministry, faith, and life, as it happens.

Martin Luther once said that he banishes the Devil by breaking wind. “I resist the Devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away.”* The work of casting out demons is both deeply spiritual and incredibly quotidian.

Hence my Lutheran Zephyr is a light Lutheran wind; or, a way to banish the devil.

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The Posts

  • Congress’ UnBiblical Bible Study
    As leaders in Congress prepared to vote on massive changes to government spending, they learned in Bible Study that government has no business caring for the poor.
  • Judgment & Hope
    There is a place for judgment today, but we are people of hope. Judgment without hope is just anger dressed up in religiosity.
  • Luther’s Lingering Lies
    It’s classic oppressor rhetoric. Blame the people you oppress for oppressing you. Claim they’re taking advantage of the good people. Accuse them of crimes and of threatening the very fabric of society. Call for their expulsion and destruction. It’s gross.
  • When in doubt, love
    If reading Scripture leads us to anger and hate, we’re doing it wrong.
  • Disregarding Those at the Gate
    The rich man feasted lasciviously and ignored the poor man huddled at his gate. God’s justice turned things around.

The Passions

Separation of church and state, the life of the church, justice, Latin America, baseball, and running are among the passions I’ve written about here.

The Poster

The guy behind the pixels, on my way to pick up some hoagies and cheesesteaks.

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The Parameters

I write for my church elsewhere.

This blog is not professional but instead is a personal, poorly branded, uncurated repository of various ideas and insights gleaned whilst hemmed in by the Alpha and the Omega.

* This is a legitimate quote! It can be found in Martin Luther’s Table Talk, No. 122: Treatment of Melancholy, Despair, etc. November 30, 1531, in Luther’s Works vol 54, page 15.