Helping Out a Brother in Need

GeSMOKElichkeit!

Marquart's Small Catechism

God Speaks Billboards We'd Like to See

Amber Bock Alert

Welcome Back from Austin Powers and David Scaer

Lutheran Witness Interviews Ossie

I did get in a little trouble for this one...

New Lutheran Hour Speaker: Sgt. Schultz

Davey and Goliath in the ELCA

Luther on Islam

Advice from Mark Twain

Block Party!

Advice for New Vicars from Rev. Sydney Smith

Some Chesterton Advice for Gemuetlichkeit

Strident(tm) Aid Association for Gemuetkichkeit Brotherhood

GeSMOKElichkeit!

Every so often, we received a special presidential dispensation to hold a GeSMOKElichkeit.

Reason Number 72

Helping a Brother and His Family

Trevlighet with Bishop Giertz!

Thanks to the Rev. Eric Andrae, we had a VHS tape of the unleased-in-the-US film version of Bishop Bo Giertz's Hammer of God.  We viewed it at Sihler auditorium and renamed Gemuetlichkeit to Trevlighet for the occasion.

St. Valentine's Cancelation

This is the last day I wore a tie: the 2002 Valentine's Day dance. For some reason, that is when I drew the line and stopped wearing them. Fortunately, I have been able to avoid wearing one ever since - though I had a close call in my secular job a few months back. God is gracious and merciful...

What Luther Says... About Gemuetlichkeit

Jack Chick Meets Gemuetlichkeit

Jack Chick tracts! Check out his treatise on Holy Communion!

 They're so epic they have spawned a slew of parodies (PG-13).

Bumper Stickers, Part Two

These bumper stickers (and the previous poster's) were put into a slideshow and played at the 2002 symposia banquet. What Would Pless Read? was to become a facebook group.

And people told me I was wasting my time on this silly stuff. Ha! I showed them...  ;-)

Bumper Stickers

"Back on your heads," says Dr. Scaer

Misunderstandings Corrected

A non-Lutheran group was renting space on campus. They were shocked to learn that the seminary permitted the students to drink beer. Several letters were written to Dr. Wenthe, seminary president and Dr. Weinrich, academic dean. One writer even suggested that Martin Luther would not approve of beer-drinking by the students.

 In fact, Gemuetlichkeit was always well-attended by faculty members, and it provided a wonderful forum to talk about the faith, theology, and the challenges we would all face in the holy ministry.

Beer and Reformation

Cana

St. Augustine

Austin Powers Rings In the Fall Term

Some Inside and Not-So-Inside Humor

The CTS faculty actually enjoyed being the object of teasing. I would even post these posters in the common areas of the faculty office buildings.

After the election...

Student Mission Society

St. Augustine

"Gemuetlichkeit" transliterated into Greek and Hebrew.

Bibat Ille...

It seems that this is a medieval drinking song (from the book Teach Yourself Beginning Latin, now entitled Get Started in Latin).

AAL Donation

This one was actually the first one that I designed, as we were raising funds for a brother seminarian's family in conjunction with AAL.

Gemuetlichcatechism

Circa 2000

This is the old Gemuetlichkeit poster, circa 2000, from before my time, which I continued using during the year - including the imprimatur of Dean of Students, the Rev. Tim Puls.