Time for something a little different. Well, not so different as it pertains to liturgics, my pet field of interest.

Where could you go during the sixteenth century for three-hour morning services, one-hour sermons, weekly communion, and catechetical services in the afternoons (which pastors complained not enough people attended!)? No, I'm not describing what partly happened in Heidelberg, Geneva, or the Netherlands, or later Independency with John Owen, but German Lutheranism. I bet you didn't know that—I didn't!

I am finishing up a paper this week on the issue of adiaphora [things indifferent, i.e., neither commanded nor forbidden] in confessional Lutheranism. One great little summary I stumbled across in my research is an online, twelve-page paper entitled, "Insights From Early Lutheran Worship," by Joseph Herl, Associate Professor of Music at Concordia University—Nebraska.

Enjoy and appreciate your Lutheran brothers and sisters.