On the Cover of Pretty Good Lutheran

Years ago, one of my favorite musical groups was Captain Hook and the Medicine Show. In prep for this blog, I visited some websites and the memories really startled flowing. Song’s like “Soup Stone,” “Freaker’s Ball” and “Cover of the Rolling Stone” a gimmick song that was probably intended to do just what they wanted, get their picture on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.
There are only two blogs that I regularly follow, “Spirit of a Liberal” and “Pretty Good Lutheran” both sites deal with issues within the church. You can imagine my surprise when a few weeks ago I saw my name on the “Blog of the Day” area of Pretty Good Lutheran. Every day they have a selection of Blogs posted on their front page. Mostly pastors who tend to think a bit too much, occasionally a Bishop who always think they have something important to say, people I would not normally hang with unless it was either mandatory or they were buying. At first I thought about the old saying, “keep you mouth shut and have people think your foolish, or open you mouth and leave them with no doubt that your are foolish” ran through my mind. Then I thought, “Hey….this is really pretty cool.” I felt a little like Dr. Hook getting his picture on the cover of the Rolling Stone. Maybe it was a slow news day around the ELCA, I did notice that they didn’t use the picture of Martha and me doing our “Captain Morgan” pose, instead they used a silly stick figure, hardly an accurate representation of me.
So with my apologies to Dr. Hook, my mind started playing with new lyrics for his song.

Well I’m a Recovery Worship pastor, I’ve got golden fingers
And I’m tolerated everywhere I go
I preach about recovery and we preach about truth
At ten o’clock every Sunday or so
I try all kind of frills that give them all kind of thrills
But the thrill I’ll never known
Is the thrill that'll get me when I get my picture
On the cover of the Pretty Good Lutheran

Pretty Good Lutheran
Wanna see my picture on the cover
Pretty Good Lutheran
Wanna buy five copies for my mother
Pretty Good Lutheran
Wanna see my smilin' face
On the cover of the Pretty Good Lutheran


I got a lot of little AA blue-eyed groupies
Who do anything I say
I got a genuine Recovery Bible
That’s teachin' me better way
I got all the friends that money can buy
So I never have to be alone
And I keep gettin' fatter but I can't get my picture
On the cover of the Pretty Good Lutheran.

Pretty Good Lutheran
Wanna see my picture on the cover
Pretty Good Lutheran
Wanna buy five copies for my mother
Pretty Good Lutheran
Wanna see my smilin' face
On the cover of the Pretty Good Lutheran

If this works maybe I will shoot for the Lutheran magazine!!!

See you next week

PS. As of September 10 "Pretty Good Lutheran" is no more :(. So much for my dream of 15 min of fame. Thanks for all the good reads Susan. I hope this post didn't play a role in your decision!