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August 2013

August 09, 2013

Is God different than we are?: The ontological controversy

Consider this quote from Timothy George, in our recent Christianity without the Atonement post: The problem...

August 08, 2013

Christianity without the Atonement

The committee preparing a new hymnal for the Presbyterian Church (USA) has thrown out a...

August 02, 2013

How church growth strategies keep missing the point

Rachel Held Evans tells about how churches that want to reach young people keep missing...

August 01, 2013

The Salvation of Unborn Children

What is the eternal destiny of children who die in the womb or who are...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

LCMS convention post mortem

The convention of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod is over. There were no big controversies. ...

July 30, 2013

The Pope refuses to judge gay people

Pope Francis, responding to reporters' questions, said, "Who am I to judge gay people?" Though...

July 25, 2013

De Toqueville on Christianity in America

Democracy in America, written by the French aristocrat Alexis de Toqueville in 1835, is full...

July 22, 2013

Recovering the freakishness of Christianity

Russell Moore, identified as per our previous discussion as one of those "Lutheran Baptists," was...

July 22, 2013

Dressing for church

On the front page of Saturday's Washington Post: An article about what people wear to...

July 22, 2013

This week’s LCMS convention

This is the season when churches go out to convention. The denomination that I grew...

July 19, 2013

Indulgences via Twitter

Pope Francis will be offering a plenary indulgence--that is, a full release from Purgatory for...

July 19, 2013

LCMS president and other church bodies

Mathew Block, the communications director of the Lutheran Church Canada who writes for the First...

July 18, 2013

The Most Beautiful Churches

In response to the feature I posted about on the most ugly churches, Michael Sean...

July 18, 2013

An evangelist to theologians

This year is the 100th anniversary of the birth of a theologian I had never...

July 16, 2013

The end of American Protestantism?

Theologian Stanley Hauerwas has written a devastating critique of America and American Protestantism that, agree...

July 16, 2013

The “Place of Jesus” Lutheran church & the LCMS

As we've blogged about earlier, the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus has broken ties with...

July 15, 2013

The Ugliest Churches in the World?

Is your church listed as one of the 35 ugliest churches in the world? Nicholas...

July 15, 2013

LCMS president’s re-election

While I was gone: Rev. Matthew Harrison, a confessional theologian with a heart, was re-elected...

July 03, 2013

Syrian rebels are targeting Christians

Islamists among the Syrian rebels--whom the United States is supporting--are engaged in "religious cleansing" against...

July 03, 2013

Bible reading marathon

Lectio continua is the ancient practice of reading the Bible from beginning to end. Quite...

July 01, 2013

Do conservatives need to be Catholics?

According to some circles, in order to be a consistent conservative, you really need to...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

Maybe the Church will now take marriage seriously

As my daughter pointed out, churches have been violating God's design for marriage long before...

June 25, 2013

Happy Augsburg Confession day!

Today, June 25, is the anniversary of the Presentation of the Augsburg Confession, which happened...

June 25, 2013

Anglicans starting a “pagan church”

The Church of England is breaking new ground in being "missional," in the sense of...

June 25, 2013

Conference on gay marriage & gay ministry

Are you familiar with Doxology, the Lutheran institute on pastoral care (as well as care...

June 24, 2013

Celibacy & friendship

Wesley Hill is a gay Christian who agrees with the Biblical teachings on homosexuality and...

June 21, 2013

Exodus International is going out of business

Exodus International, the evangelical ministry to gays that sought to help them change their orientation,...

June 18, 2013

“The child who is born to you shall die”

The sermon last Sunday was about Nathan's preaching to King David about his sin with...

June 13, 2013

Good lines on Baptism

The current issue of For the Life of the World, the magazine of Concordia Theological...

June 10, 2013

Catholic evangelism

Roman Catholics have been launching a major world-wide evangelism effort. It includes "witnessing," knocking on...