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03 September 2005
A Storm-Tossed Medley
Featuring a small selection of hurricane-inspired Lutheran blog posts
Reactions are personal and political, thoughtful and theological. We have connections to high gas prices, divine judgment, and beloved family members. We have eye-witnesses, insightful comments, and inciting rhetoric. Calls to dive in and rebuild and demands that we never build anything else in a sub-sea level bowl. I'm not sorting, so alphabetical by blog name is the way this will go.
If you find other, significant contributions to this collection, please let me know and, if I agree, I'll post them, also.
All that I have so far here at the Alley is a brief note on providing Hurricane Assistance.
Ask the Pastor contributes an extended essay on divine justice and mercy with A Christian Response to Suffering and Death.
From Be Strong in the Grace we have Hurrican Katrina - Some Ways to Help, which focuses on things which can be done through the Evangelical Lutheran Synod and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.
Mutti Beck at Beckfest shows her little Arkansas town's initial response to a refugee influx and continues in Refuge to show what they've begun doing, including hosting birthday parties for the displaced children.
Bloghardt's Reflector gives personal insight as people began asking, "How's Your Family?", showing also how hard hit are his brother LCMS clergy in the area. He then provides More Information on Relief Efforts.
World Magazine blogger Bunnie Diehl notes disgusting conditions and classical violin music in the Superdome in They Should Have Something. Then, with her understanding of original sin, asks who are the Good People?. Finally, she frees her inner economist to speak In Defense of Price Gouging.
The Burr in the Burgh covers several angles: Pastor Stiegemeyer comments on International Responses to Hurricane Katrina, invokes both William Golding and our Lord Jesus in Horror in the Big Easy, and offers a link to the the work of ham radio operators in Katrina's aftermath.
Chaplain Dave's Newsletter, the work of Air Force chaplain David Reedy, provides a look what happened at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Mississippi and then shows Washington, DC Welcoming Victims from Gulfport.
Stan Lemon's Confessions of a Young Lutheran reminds us that In Christ the Rain Does Care!
Cross+Wise weighs in with theological and human insight in Fallen Levees, Fallen Man, Fallen World.
Repent. The Rain Doesn't Care. Rejoice. God Does. The title tells you why you should read this post from Pastor Petersen at Cyberstones.
In Full Throttle & an Empty Gas Tank, we see various concerns moving someone hundreds of miles away in Indiana, as he watches his father's reactions and worries over a missing friend in Oranges and Apples.
Pastor Alms of incarnatus est notices how crisis counselers are being mobilized and asks How much does crisis counselling help — or hurt? His answer is based in part upon a linked article from The New Yorker on "The Grief Industry."
The lady who offers glimpses into her world through The Life of a Pastor's Wife at Lonesome Grove falls back upon God's Word and our hymnody in when through fiery trials.
Ryan Fouts offers the locus Christ in Catastrophe at his Little Loci blog.
At Lutheran Jargon, Minister2B posits New Orleans - Random Thoughts - May be Controversial, wherein he questions the wisdom of rebuilding the Crescent City, comments on human ill-behavior, and finally, blames the French for the mess. He then goes on to lampoon FEMA's inept responses in Feds didn't expect crime in New Orleans?!
Meanwhile, Melancthon Sins Boldly takes to task those who place ultimate blame upon the victims of the disaster with Not Curvatus in Se Enough.
Necessary Roughness shows the need for A Gondola for Venice, Please, using in-house "before and after" photographs from Halliburton.
Poor Michael's Almanac briefly reminds us that (and why) Creation Groans.
Random Dan at Random Thoughts of a Confessional Lutheran speaks from his education and vocation as he joins those who think that rebuilding New Orleans would be unwise. He then provides interesting figures about relative worth, showing that even expensive gasoline might be a bargain as he cites statistics from the Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association.
Pastor Fish admits that there is Something Fishy going on as he takes note of Real Evil.
Territorial Bloggings allows us to join Glen Piper in Weeping for New Orleans as he examines the mess and the reaction of the world and the Church.
The Uneasy Priest is another blogger who weighs in on the sudden and dramatic increase in fuel prices with Gasoline and Economics. ¶ 21:38 |
Reactions are personal and political, thoughtful and theological. We have connections to high gas prices, divine judgment, and beloved family members. We have eye-witnesses, insightful comments, and inciting rhetoric. Calls to dive in and rebuild and demands that we never build anything else in a sub-sea level bowl. I'm not sorting, so alphabetical by blog name is the way this will go.
If you find other, significant contributions to this collection, please let me know and, if I agree, I'll post them, also.
All that I have so far here at the Alley is a brief note on providing Hurricane Assistance.
Ask the Pastor contributes an extended essay on divine justice and mercy with A Christian Response to Suffering and Death.
From Be Strong in the Grace we have Hurrican Katrina - Some Ways to Help, which focuses on things which can be done through the Evangelical Lutheran Synod and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.
Mutti Beck at Beckfest shows her little Arkansas town's initial response to a refugee influx and continues in Refuge to show what they've begun doing, including hosting birthday parties for the displaced children.
Bloghardt's Reflector gives personal insight as people began asking, "How's Your Family?", showing also how hard hit are his brother LCMS clergy in the area. He then provides More Information on Relief Efforts.
World Magazine blogger Bunnie Diehl notes disgusting conditions and classical violin music in the Superdome in They Should Have Something. Then, with her understanding of original sin, asks who are the Good People?. Finally, she frees her inner economist to speak In Defense of Price Gouging.
The Burr in the Burgh covers several angles: Pastor Stiegemeyer comments on International Responses to Hurricane Katrina, invokes both William Golding and our Lord Jesus in Horror in the Big Easy, and offers a link to the the work of ham radio operators in Katrina's aftermath.
Chaplain Dave's Newsletter, the work of Air Force chaplain David Reedy, provides a look what happened at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Mississippi and then shows Washington, DC Welcoming Victims from Gulfport.
Stan Lemon's Confessions of a Young Lutheran reminds us that In Christ the Rain Does Care!
Cross+Wise weighs in with theological and human insight in Fallen Levees, Fallen Man, Fallen World.
Repent. The Rain Doesn't Care. Rejoice. God Does. The title tells you why you should read this post from Pastor Petersen at Cyberstones.
In Full Throttle & an Empty Gas Tank, we see various concerns moving someone hundreds of miles away in Indiana, as he watches his father's reactions and worries over a missing friend in Oranges and Apples.
Pastor Alms of incarnatus est notices how crisis counselers are being mobilized and asks How much does crisis counselling help — or hurt? His answer is based in part upon a linked article from The New Yorker on "The Grief Industry."
The lady who offers glimpses into her world through The Life of a Pastor's Wife at Lonesome Grove falls back upon God's Word and our hymnody in when through fiery trials.
Ryan Fouts offers the locus Christ in Catastrophe at his Little Loci blog.
At Lutheran Jargon, Minister2B posits New Orleans - Random Thoughts - May be Controversial, wherein he questions the wisdom of rebuilding the Crescent City, comments on human ill-behavior, and finally, blames the French for the mess. He then goes on to lampoon FEMA's inept responses in Feds didn't expect crime in New Orleans?!
Meanwhile, Melancthon Sins Boldly takes to task those who place ultimate blame upon the victims of the disaster with Not Curvatus in Se Enough.
Necessary Roughness shows the need for A Gondola for Venice, Please, using in-house "before and after" photographs from Halliburton.
Poor Michael's Almanac briefly reminds us that (and why) Creation Groans.
Random Dan at Random Thoughts of a Confessional Lutheran speaks from his education and vocation as he joins those who think that rebuilding New Orleans would be unwise. He then provides interesting figures about relative worth, showing that even expensive gasoline might be a bargain as he cites statistics from the Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association.
Pastor Fish admits that there is Something Fishy going on as he takes note of Real Evil.
Territorial Bloggings allows us to join Glen Piper in Weeping for New Orleans as he examines the mess and the reaction of the world and the Church.
The Uneasy Priest is another blogger who weighs in on the sudden and dramatic increase in fuel prices with Gasoline and Economics. ¶ 21:38 |
