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November 2025

November 05, 2025

Homosexuality in the NRSVue New Testament

The New Revised Standard Version (NRSVue) mistranslates some words referring to homosexuality, but elsewhere makes...

November 04, 2025

The Progressives’ Bible and Its Critics

The usual Bible translation for mainline liberal Protestants is the "New Revised Standard Version updated...

October 2025

October 31, 2025

How the 95 Theses Ignited the Reformation of the Church

FREE POST: An excerpt from my recent book, "Engaging Your Lutheran Identity" on how and...

October 23, 2025

Narcissus vs. Adam & Eve

Brad Littlejohn contrasts Adam and Eve's relationship with that described in the myth of Narcissus,...

October 21, 2025

Calvinist Critical Theory

A free post: Anthony Bradley is both a Calvinist and a social justice conservative, reflecting...

October 15, 2025

A Place to Stand

"If I had a place to stand,” said Archimedes, “I could move the world.” The...

October 08, 2025

Evangelicals Questioning Substitutionary Atonement

Many evangelicals, particularly evangelical theologians, are rejecting the teaching that Jesus Christ bore our sins...

October 07, 2025

Evangelicals’ Theological Illiteracy

A new study of the beliefs of evangelicals shows an alarming level of theological illiteracy.

October 03, 2025

DISCUSS: AI-Generated Bible Videos

Speaking of AI, what do you think of the AI-generated Bible videos?

October 02, 2025

Tech Magnate Is Worried about the Antichrist

Peter Thiel is predicting the coming of the Antichrist. No, not the pope. Not Donald...

September 2025

September 26, 2025

Prayer and God’s Name

The Lord’s Prayer reminds us that it makes a huge difference whom we are praying...

September 15, 2025

The Wrong Kind of Enthusiasm

This is my very first contribution to "Tabletalk," published in June 2001. I wrote about...

August 2025

August 20, 2025

The New English Translation (NET) of the Bible

What makes the New English Translation (NET) unique are its 60,000 translation notes, which explain...

August 08, 2025

The Scopes Trial and Eugenics

The Scopes Trial, which marks its 100th anniversary on August 10, was not just about...

August 07, 2025

John Kleinig’s New Book on the Lord’s Supper

[A free post, to share.] Lexham Press has been publishing lots of Lutheran authors, to...

July 2025

July 31, 2025

The Theological Problems with AI Sermons

The main problems with AI-generated sermons are not ethical but theological. AI-chatbots are not called...

July 16, 2025

On Protestant Denominations

Denominations are being attacked from both a Catholic and a Protestant direction. Here is a...

July 02, 2025

Flame’s New Book on Church Fathers & the Sacraments

[A free post.] The Christian rapper and Lutheran convert Marcus "Flame" Gray has published a...

May 2025

May 30, 2025

Misconceptions about the Nicene Creed

Clearing up misconceptions about the Nicene Creed: It is not just "Roman Catholic." The emperors...

May 27, 2025

Piercing God

A Jewish scholar writes about the nature of blasphemy, the Hebrew word for which is...

April 2025

April 17, 2025

The “Vast and Spacious Things” at Gethsemane

I owe a lot to the great Christian poet George Herbert: my dissertation, my career,...

April 16, 2025

A Stunning Text on Vocation from the Apocrypha

I quite randomly stumbled upon a passage from The Book of Sirach (a.k.a., Ecclesiasticus) in...

April 14, 2025

Holy Week Miscellany, 4/14/25

There are two "Last Supper" movies. Even tourists won't be allowed to worship in China. ...

April 11, 2025

The Common Order of Christian Love

Luther's doctrine of the estates is an important facet--in addition to the Two Kingdoms and...

April 09, 2025

The War Against the Body

Underlying many of our moral and cultural issues today is a war against the body,...

March 2025

March 19, 2025

There Is More to Freedom Than You Realize

Everyone wants to be free, but they mean different things by it. Brad Littlejohn explores...

March 12, 2025

The LCMS: Not as Conservative as We Think We are

The new Religious Landscape Study includes a wealth of data on denominations, including the Lutheran...

March 04, 2025

How an LCMS Tech Titan Lost His Faith & Is Getting It Back

[A free post.] Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, grew up in the Lutheran Church...

February 2025

February 28, 2025

What the Bible Says about the Spirit of the Age

I delved into Scripture to see what the Bible says about conforming to the spirit...

February 20, 2025

The Authority for Liberal Theology

As Roger Olson has shown, "the best of modern thought," not the Bible, is the...