Why yes Nancy. This IS your dear old friend frank sonnek. my direct email is fwsonnek@gmail.com. I live in brasil now. I would love to reconnect with you!

Nancy

Just goes to show that SOME honorary doctorates are well earned…

And plagiarize away!

No. You are wrong. You are a doctor of theology. you perhaps lack the piece of paper that says so.

I am curious why one of our schools has not decided to give you an honorary degree yet.

You are doing something really hard. you are applying confessional Lutheranism in foreign contexts of modernism, post modernist, art, literature. You are managing to rightly devide law and gospel as you do that.

This is not something Lutherans normally know how to do. You make it look so easy.

I deal in similar contexts on a daily basis. I hope you don´t mind me telling you that I plagerize you shamelessly on a frequent basis. And so I know how hard this all is….

By the way my former pastor seems to have you on a pedestal as well… you have helped him through some rough times it seems.

My problem is not so much the mechanics of starting a blog. I know about web hosting and all in that I am a MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) , CCNA …etc… WordPress looks good to me.

My problems are the following:

1) I do not have a call. I am not Doctor as you are. I am unqualified in many ways, perhaps my homosexuality, and my lack of theological training and temperment. I would do NOTHING to detract from Christ Crucified. The goal must be to proclaim Light and not to produce heat. Heat is about that other one we oppose…

I fear, especially on issues like Homosexuality that I will promote error. I feel the need to be firmly under the structure and governance of those publicly set apart for this work. I have asked my former pastor and others to refer me to someone in one of our seminaries or somewhere who could guide me behind a scenes , and as you know, this is sorta dicey for political reasons. I assume this is why I have yet to be steered here.

2) Secondly, I notice that topical blogs seem to work the best. Your theme is vocation. this is masterful. Pastor McCain has classic lutheran confessional orthodoxy NAILED in spades. Andrew Sullivan has a political Blog. I flirted with the theme of homosexuality or even more properly, sexuality in general. There is alot of human suffering their that I could join my own and Christ´s suffering to. But this I am convinced would be wrong precisely because I exist in Jesus Christ and my sexuality, like my other human attributes should never be allowed to trump that in myself or others. This is precisely my beef with the family values crowd, Dr Dobson, Joel Osteen, et al. The focus must alway be Jesus regardless of how righteous some cause might appear to be.

You have my direct email I think. I would be most grateful for whatever guidance you could give me and I would look to follow it carefully.

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