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2019-05-24T08:18:41-05:00

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Ascension And Pentecost: Otherwise Known As Christmas (Or Easter) In June

Last updated on: May 24, 2019 at 8:18 am By Clint Schnekloth

We’re not done yet. This is what I keep telling myself each Easter season. I have this mantra, “It’s the gospel of the 40 days. There’s another festival coming. We don’t have to wait until Christmas.” Unfortunately the wider culture doesn’t celebrate Pentecost on a level with Christmas or Easter. No trees to decorate. No eggs to color. Just a holy day liturgical geeks attempt (unsuccessfully) to promote, while graduation and Memorial Day and life in general gather our greater... Read more

2019-05-15T21:01:35-05:00

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The Rise Of Trauma-Informed Theology And Resources For Healing

Last updated on: May 15, 2019 at 9:01 pm By Clint Schnekloth

“Trauma is the confrontation with an event that, in its unexpectedness and horror, cannot be placed within the schemes of prior knowledge” (Cathy Caruth) “When believers are conformed to Christ, they are conformed to the other, to the neighbor in suffering and need. Again, through the same love, we are to be changed and to make the infirmities of all other Christians our own; we are to take upon ourselves their form and their necessity” (Martin Luther) When I first... Read more

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2019-05-07T21:51:47-05:00

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We’re Still In Easter, But Ascension Is Coming

Last updated on: May 7, 2019 at 9:51 pm By Clint Schnekloth

St. Paul Lutheran, Davenport, Iowa The Ascension Of It All Word association game: Say Ascension, and what immediately comes to mind? For me, the answer is John Coltrane (he has a crazy great recording by this title, which tries to evoke the theological topic musically). Then immediately after John Coltrane, I remember the stained glass window I used to scan weekly during worship at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Davenport, Iowa. It was positioned magisterially directly above and behind... Read more

2019-05-02T08:41:35-05:00

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Living and Managing Without Reference to God

Last updated on: May 2, 2019 at 8:41 am By Clint Schnekloth

Let’s begin with a simple premise. The secular is more than one thing, but for our purposes, in its most popular usage, it is living and managing without reference to God. We might call this self-sufficient humanism. It is this most common understanding of the secular that looms in the majority of our cultural analysis. If we have concerns about the separation of church and state, if the decline of religiosity raises our anxiety, if we struggle to find ways... Read more

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2019-04-26T10:37:47-05:00

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The Sovereignty of Christ, the Avengers, and the Infinity of Thanos

Last updated on: April 26, 2019 at 10:37 am By Clint Schnekloth

* No spoilers here, this is a theological reflection on the metaphysical context for the Marvel universe In Marvel comic book cosmology, there are things that existed before things existed. The infinity stones existed before the creation of the universe (the Nine Realms). One of these things, the aether, exists in a liquid rather than a solid state, and is roughly like a force or power that turns matter into dark matter. In this cosmology, because these stones pre-exist the... Read more

2019-04-26T10:45:12-05:00

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All The Things To Know About Church Growth

Last updated on: April 26, 2019 at 10:45 am By Clint Schnekloth

Truth #1: Nobody knows why some churches grow and others don’t. Church growth shares sociological territory with rock bands and publishing. You can’t always predict which books will sell, or which bands will go to the top of the charts. Remember the old publishing mantra: “There are three ways to make money in publishing… and none of them work.” Sometimes arbitrary, sometimes serendipitous, so much of church growth remains inexplicable (apart from the work of the Holy Spirit). Some churches... Read more

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2019-04-17T21:54:32-05:00

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Notre Dame And Holy Week (With More Than A Nod To Walter Benjamin)

Last updated on: April 17, 2019 at 9:54 pm By Clint Schnekloth

“Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: Its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.” (Walter Benjamin) Notre-Dame de Paris Is A Church It may also be a world-renowned cultural icon, a destination for tourists, and an architectural wonder, but it is first of all a church. For this reason my heart goes out to the communities that worship there daily. Notre Dame... Read more

2019-04-17T11:22:28-05:00

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Why the church is failing at new media

Last updated on: April 17, 2019 at 11:22 am By Clint Schnekloth

Is that what they teach you in seminary? Definitely a frequent question asked of pastors, typically when people are genuinely flummoxed by the content of a sermon, or doubt the efficacy of a new church program or theme. So you might ask, what are they teaching these days on new media? Apparently, the answer is mostly: Boundaries! Why? Thesis: The denomination asks seminaries to teach students about boundaries in social media because a) synod offices are inundated with work addressing... Read more

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2019-04-14T14:38:40-05:00

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Just Something About Jesus

Last updated on: April 14, 2019 at 2:38 pm By Clint Schnekloth

Joseph Ratzinger, before he was Pope Benedict XVI, wrote many learned books on theology and liturgy. But I wasn’t surprised that when he began publishing books as pope, they were about Jesus of Nazareth and the joy of knowing Christ. I spend a lot of time planning liturgy and writing sermons. But when I really sit down to meditate and pray, what repeatedly comes to my mind and heart is a simple thought, “Jesus, I really love Jesus.” We can... Read more

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2019-04-10T21:19:22-05:00

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These books changed my life

Last updated on: April 10, 2019 at 9:19 pm By Clint Schnekloth

Emily Dickinson famously remarked, “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.” Some books, some authors, have that kind of enduring impact on our lives, so deep that we no longer think about the world, or live in the world, the same way after reading them. So for this Monday, I offer a list of books that took the top of my head off. Consider sharing this list and... Read more

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