Daniel Haas

Month: March 2011

  • Worship Wars

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    Chaplain Mike gives A Rant from a Loser in the Worship Wars. Let not your heart be troubled – you are not a loser: About 3/4 of the US population are Christians, almost evenly divided into 1/4 Catholic, 1/4 Mainline Protestant and 1/4 Evangelical. That leaves 2/3 of American Christians worshiping “liturgically”. By no means…

  • Twitterfeed is dead

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    At least as far as I am concerned. Since my feed runs through feedburner anyway I gave Socialize a chance and here is the result: No missed posts, no noticeable delays. You should give Socialize a try, too.

  • Back to the Future

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    The Bible Crisis is soon to be over. Here is a reply from the American Bible Society: “Thank  you for contacting us about the Scripture passages offered as Today’s Bible Reading.  The passages from 2010 were uploaded to our website for the first 8 days of March by mistake.  Unfortunately, this cannot be corrected in…

  • Psalm 27

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    Today’s Reading is Psalm 27. This time for real. Traditionally many Psalms are ascribed to King David. As is Hebrew custom I want to shake that concept up a little by looking at one single letter: ל (Lamed). Most English Bible translations have a heading to them that sounds somewhat like “Of David”. Yet לְדָוִד…

  • Psalm 34

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    Today’s Reading is Psalm 34. The Psalter is often referred to as “Israel’s Hymnal”. Today’s Psalm is pretty important for liturgical use: – Verse 4 is recited when the Torah scroll is taken out of the ark. – Verse 14 is part of the closing paragraph of the Shmoneh Esreh.