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2019-04-08T15:38:28-05:00

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How much time should you spend at church per week?

Last updated on: April 8, 2019 at 3:38 pm By Clint Schnekloth

My answer: At least six hours. Here’s why. First, and most obviously, Christians are called to worship. They observe the Lord’s Day, the Eight Day of creation, and they do so at least weekly (although I find the practice of Roman Catholics and some other communities of going to Mass daily quite beautiful and appealing). So at a Lutheran church, that’s at least one hour, maybe an hour and fifteen minutes. Then, some of our folks are regularly... Read more

2019-04-09T07:42:05-05:00

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Finding your voice in politics, religion, and social media: from private devotion to public theology

Last updated on: April 9, 2019 at 7:42 am By Clint Schnekloth

“The signal virtue of Christianity is that there is a version of it for the learned (theology) and one for the common people (devotional practice); and though the two may find themselves in occasional contention, they are bound together within the ecclesiastical institution itself. It is hard to come up with a popular version of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Mind or Schelling’s System of Transcendental Idealism.” (Terry Eagleton) From Private Devotion to (Semi)Public Theology Let’s start with the premise that part... Read more

2019-03-25T20:53:19-05:00

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Easter Theses

Last updated on: March 25, 2019 at 8:53 pm By Clint Schnekloth

(Some Things To Ponder This Holy Week) Holy Week is something to live, to experience, but it can also help us think about God as Trinity in profound ways. So I offer here, before Holy Week, a set of Easter Theses. I. The cross signifies Jesus Christ’s deep faithfulness to us. It is the outcome of Jesus remaining steadfast, loving the entire cosmos even in the face of persecution and torture. The cross does not signify a divine transaction. It does... Read more

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2019-03-31T21:53:31-05:00

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Church By the Numbers

Last updated on: March 31, 2019 at 9:53 pm By Clint Schnekloth

I wish I could report that in my years of pastoral ministry, I’ve come up with incredibly creative alternatives to measure congregational vitality other than worship attendance. In this scenario, I’d report to the synod the number of times we refilled the Little Free Pantry, the pounds of food we brought for the Ramadan meal we served at the mosque, our number of participants in the Pride parade, or total number of engagements on the Facebook page. But in the... Read more

2019-03-26T22:10:00-05:00

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Holding the Bible Lightly

Last updated on: March 26, 2019 at 10:10 pm By Clint Schnekloth

How we interpret our sacred Scriptures (hermeneutics) matters quite a lot. I served a congregation in Wisconsin for six years that owned two lovely and historic church buildings. The Norwegian Lutherans had split in the mid-1890s over what was at the time a huge issue—single vs. double predestination. As a result of the split, two beautiful rural churches were built two hundred yards apart from each other on adjacent sides of the cemetery. Prior to the predestination controversy, Norwegian Lutherans... Read more

2019-03-25T21:06:58-05:00

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Whether Corporations, Too, Can Be Saved

Last updated on: March 25, 2019 at 9:06 pm By Clint Schnekloth

“Go at once to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before me.” But Jonah set out to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. (Jonah 1:2-3) I’m going to attempt a meditation on Christian ethics and corporations, and I think perhaps it is best to start with a story. I grew up on a family farm. I can still remember the day our family farm incorporated, and eventually we replaced... Read more

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2019-03-23T11:42:08-05:00

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Who is Robert Saler?

Last updated on: March 23, 2019 at 11:42 am By Clint Schnekloth

I don’t inquire into Robert Saler’s identity because he is mysterious and unknown in the mode of Thomas Pynchon. And I don’t ask it in order to launch an ad hominem discourse undermining his authorship based on biographical or personal details. I ask the question because Robert Saler, in his book, Between Magisterium and Marketplace: A Constructive Account of Theology and the Church (Emerging Scholars), launches an inquiry into what he calls “theological authorship” and this in relationship to the... Read more

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2019-03-19T11:50:24-05:00

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Some Pro-tips for Church Leaders Who Don’t Go To Church | Adam Copeland I’m Looking At You

Last updated on: March 19, 2019 at 11:50 am By Clint Schnekloth

The Second Naïveté Way back in my seminary days, I remember making my way through Paul Ricoeur’s Time and Narrative. It was a very slow kind of reading, and I often had to access secondary sources to get a better understanding of Ricoeur’s thought. One concept of his that intrigued me, and I’ve walked around with ever since, is his description (as concerns the reading of Scripture) of what he calls the first and second naïveté. The first naïveté takes things... Read more

2019-03-11T09:48:04-05:00

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A Public Letter To My Conference of Bishops and the ELCA Church Council Concerning “Trustworthy Stewards”

Last updated on: March 11, 2019 at 9:48 am By Clint Schnekloth

Undermining Trust By Re-Writing A Text About Trust I’m not at all happy to write this, and generally wish I didn’t have to… partially because I have to lay out internal politics of my own denomination for an audience much broader than that. But also because I had thought (and I am grieved to learn I am wrong) that those who I respect and who serve in leadership in my church would have handled this better. But they didn’t. And... Read more

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2019-03-05T22:31:14-05:00

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Should We Ditch the Concept of Sin?

Last updated on: March 5, 2019 at 10:31 pm By Clint Schnekloth

Damn it, sin, what are you? I find myself in a strange situation. I’m called as a pastor to proclaim the forgiveness of sins. I’m also a Lutheran pastor, and one hallmark of our tradition, grounded as it is in Luther’s Reformation discovery, is a focus on repentance (of/from sin, ostensibly) specifically for the sake of the absolution (we’ll come back around to this in a bit). We focus on sin in our liturgy. Like tomorrow at Ash Wednesday services... Read more

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