Detail from a mural at a church-supported women’s health clinic in Santiago, Chile. “Warning! Chauvinism kills” 
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. 
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. 
Video worship recorded at home during the pandemic. The artwork behind me is a 19th century hand-carved relief of the incarnations of Vishnu.
My goal on this blog is 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.
The Posts
- “But it was real”
Of course it was real. Do you want a lollipop? - “I am redeemed”
Maybe they’re not a cult after all? - This is the Way: the factions following Mandalore’s creed, stories, and rites
The Mandalorian takes religion, and the reality of religious sectarianism, seriously. - This is the Way: Respecting Religion in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Andor and The Mandalorian present religion in surprisingly sophisticated and thoughtful ways. - Four Big Things in Chile Right Now
Currently there are two major, nearly simultaneous political events occurring in Chile – the writing of a new constitution (to replace the 1980 constitution imposed by the dictatorship) and anContinue reading “Four Big Things in Chile Right Now”
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.
The Lutheran Zephyr 