Albert Collver, Ph.D. — Lutheran theologian, podcaster, and lifelong coder since the '90s shareware era. I build free, open-source tools like CastPolish, liturgical software, and family-history projects. All local, no cloud.
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Sometime in 1845, in a print
The Declaration of Grace, the Absolution, and a five-hundred-year argument — from the medieval Offene Schuld to Luther's own 1540 formula to page 203 of Lutheran Service Book.
Chasing an ElevenLabs-quality voice clone that runs free and local — the Chatterbox fight, why token TTS improvises, and the little CPU model that finally worked.
We are used to reading a calendar downward — January at the top, December at the bottom — as though the year were a ladder we climb and then step off. The church has never
Lutheran Lectionary v1.3.0 adds the historic introit and collect to every Lenten weekday card — 38 days of public-domain text, verified against two independent missals.
