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2020-04-17T22:28:07-05:00

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Best New Albums of 2020

Last updated on: April 17, 2020 at 10:28 pm By Clint Schnekloth

Music is one of the things keeping me centered through this time. Wondering what y’all are listening to. Here’s my best music of the first quarter of 2020 list. 1. Ultraísta, Sister, Radiohead’s producer and Beck’s drummer teamed up 2. HMLTD, West of Eden 3. Poliça, When We Stay Alive 4. Four Tet, Sixteen Oceans 5. Wolf Parade, Thin Mind 6. Fiona Apple, Fetch the Bolt Cutters 7. Caribou, Suddenly 8. Pearl Jam, Gigaton 9. Bob Dylan, Murder Most Foul... Read more

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2020-04-15T21:10:07-05:00

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Why I’m Voting For Biden (But I Can See Why You Wouldn’t): A Christian Perspective

Last updated on: April 15, 2020 at 9:10 pm By Clint Schnekloth

Once women won the right to vote, Dorothy Day never voted. Spending time recently with Blythe Randolph and John Loughery’s new biography of her, I’ve been meditating on this decision of hers, arising as it did out of her deep and abiding Christian faith, and specifically her opposition to war. I’ve been through more than one phase in my life when I honestly thought about joining her act of protest. Voting is, after all, an act of complicity. If you... Read more

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2020-04-11T09:32:36-05:00

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From Christus Victor To Luther: An Excerpt From John Caputo

Last updated on: April 11, 2020 at 9:32 am By Clint Schnekloth

“The metaphorical view is not the one that was held in the New Testament (which knew nothing about immortal souls) or in the writings of the Fathers of the church in early Christianity, both of which centered on the cosmic combat between the power of God and the powers and principalities, in which God, in Christ, is victorious (Christus Victor). When Adam and Eve succumbed to the wiles of Satan, the story goes, the rule or reign of sin and... Read more

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2020-04-10T14:26:54-05:00

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Demythologizing the Meal of Jesus this Maundy Thursday Under Pandemic

Last updated on: April 10, 2020 at 2:26 pm By Clint Schnekloth

This morning I’m watching a PBS special with my kids about the Lutherans Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler who, based on their observations of stars and comets, transformed the world’s understanding of the universe. It still astounds me that in 2020, when our world is confronted with a pandemic, our theologians and leaders are busy not adapting to what is actually available and present to our experience, our new ways of knowing the world, but are instead still clinging to... Read more

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2020-04-03T12:04:52-05:00

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The Lutheran Confessions Resoundingly Support Virtual Communion

Last updated on: April 3, 2020 at 12:04 pm By Clint Schnekloth

Let’s go point by point through the Lutheran confessional documents in order to see what they actually have to say about communion. The Small Catechism: the head of household has the responsibility for teaching the portions of the small catechism in the home. On the topic communion, there is no mention of who should preside, or where communion should take place, or how many people need to be present. It does say, “It is not the eating and drinking, indeed,... Read more

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2020-03-29T16:11:58-05:00

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Social Justice, Distributed Church, and Pandemic: What To Do When The Church Can’t “Meet”

Last updated on: March 29, 2020 at 4:11 pm By Clint Schnekloth

I’m going to keep this short and simple, because none of us are operating at full capacity right now, responding as we are to so many daily and hourly changes, but also because I hope it will increase the chances we can all implement these suggestions. There are no power-user tips here. If you want pro insights for video editing software or the best strategies for live-streaming, there are sites for that. This is going to be lo-fi, simple, and... Read more

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2020-03-24T18:38:10-05:00

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Against The Bloviating Justifiers Of Eucharistic Fasting And Opponents of Virtual Communion

Last updated on: March 24, 2020 at 6:38 pm By Clint Schnekloth

With enforced quarantines as a result of a global pandemic, church leaders across the Lutheran church are suddenly needing to justify a practice in our denomination theologically that is, in point of fact, insupportable. Because they have tied the Eucharist to specific locations (so-called “assemblies” that typically gather in church buildings) and because they have tethered serving the meal to ordained ministers, they have to come up with a justification for pausing from the Eucharist for these weeks of isolation.... Read more

2020-03-23T09:29:45-05:00

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A Slacker/Gen X Thesis On Lo-Fi Media And Pandemic

Last updated on: March 23, 2020 at 9:29 am By Clint Schnekloth

All of our curve-flattening and social distancing and use of new distributed media will mainstream lo-fi sensibilities. All of a sudden the Willie Nelson charity concert with expensive production values shifts to video-cam from the basements of artists in Nashville, no one is going to the movies, and everyone is on Zoom. Embrace this moment. Make your mix tapes. Get your DIY on. Bust out the skiffle records. Punk your worship streaming. The high fidelity snobs have to stay... Read more

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2020-03-22T14:20:53-05:00

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A Terribly Geeky Sacramental Theological Case For “Virtual” And De-Clericized Holy Communion

Last updated on: March 22, 2020 at 2:20 pm By Clint Schnekloth

Fair warning: this is a theological argument internal to the sacramental theology of one rather odd Christian polity, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. To start, any reader needs to know some basic theological assumptions of our polity. First, we have some guiding documents on our sacraments. The main one, the Use of the Means of Grace, along with another one, Principles for Worship (Principle), are our most recent interpretation of the primary document, the Augsburg Confession. Oh, and also the Bible. Although I... Read more

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2020-03-17T21:16:13-05:00

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A Livestream Communion Liturgy During COVID-19

Last updated on: March 17, 2020 at 9:16 pm By Clint Schnekloth

As a result of curve-flattening measures during this pandemic, liturgical worship communities across the country and around the world are experimenting with digitally mediated worship services, primarily broadcast as livestream or podcast. All portions of such services, including the hymns, prayers, lessons, and sermon, are as easily broadcast via livestream as conducted in person in a church building. The hangup for many liturgical communities comes with the distribution of communion. Some communions believe that only the ordained pastor can “consecrate”... Read more

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