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May 2025

May 28, 2025

The Nicene Creed & Worship

On the occasion of the 1700th anniversary of the Nicene Creed, a patristics scholar explains...

May 27, 2025

Piercing God

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

May 14, 2025

Luther & the Confessions on the Bishop of Rome

Luther called on the Pope to be considered as just another bishop, as he was...

April 2025

April 18, 2025

My Song Is Love Unknown

The popular Good Friday hymn "My Song Is Love Unknown" is based on two poems...

April 18, 2025

DISCUSS: The Death of God

The "death of God" is a claim made by Nietzsche and arch-liberal theologians who embrace...

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 15, 2025

Bad Theology Causes Church Decline

Christopher D. Raymond looks at the recent data about the decline in church affiliation and...

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. ...

March 2025

March 05, 2025

Lenten Sermons That Stopped the Chaos

The first week of Lent, 503 years ago, Wittenberg was in a state of chaos....

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 21, 2025

The Four Strands of America’s Christian Revival

Spencer Klavan describes four strains of American Christianity that date from colonial times and that...

February 18, 2025

The ESV’s Updated Translation

Crossway is updating the English Standard Version of the Bible. The changes are minimal, though...

February 11, 2025

Reading the Bible vs. Reading Anything Else

Sometimes we Christians approach the Bible like any other book, reading it as we would...

February 07, 2025

On Virtue Signalling

The different varieties of virtue signaling at least acknowledge the reality of virtue and our...

February 06, 2025

Struggling Towards Christianity

As we've been blogging about, the New Atheists have given way to the New Theists,...

January 2025

January 21, 2025

In Bringing Back Christianity, Four Issues to Resolve

Andrew Klavan has identified four issues that need to be resolved in order to bring...

December 2024

December 25, 2024

Immanuel

Christmas is about the coming of "Immanuel." God is with us! My Christmas card to...

December 25, 2024

My Christmas Presents to You, 2024

Merry Christmas! A custom of this blog has been to give Christmas presents to my...

December 24, 2024

Why Christmas Is at the Beginning of Winter

There is good reason why we celebrate Christmas when we do, near the Winter Solstice,...

December 23, 2024

The Christmas Music That Is Advent Music

Much of our Christmas music, both sacred and secular, is actually Advent music, expressing a...

December 19, 2024

Pardons without Crimes?

President Biden, having extended clemency to over 1,500 offenders, is now, out of fear of...

December 12, 2024

Light of Light

An Advent custom is contemplating Christ as the light of the world. We know much...

December 06, 2024

Luther on Christ’s Return

Advent is the appointed time to contemplate Christ's return. But we need to be careful...

December 04, 2024

Presidential Pardons vs. God’s Pardons

What if, instead of writing out a pardon that frees Hunter from the consequences of...

December 03, 2024

He Came, He Comes, He Will Come

Advent celebrates Christ's coming, which happened in the past in Bethlehem, will happen in the...

November 2024

November 25, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 11/25/22

Americans join the immigrant wave flooding Europe. Election officials boast about disobeying election law. And...

November 22, 2024

Is the LCMS Evangelical or Mainline Protestant?

An article on the difference between evangelical and mainline Protestants made me wonder where the...

November 20, 2024

Finding the Holy Grail

The quest to find the Holy Grail, the cup that Christ used in His last...

November 19, 2024

How Christianity Invented the “Secular”

A new book shows how Christianity invented what seems to be its nemesis today: the...