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June 2013

June 10, 2013

Church of England does the best it can on gay marriage

The Church of England has been opposing gay marriage, but votes in Parliament demonstrate that...

June 07, 2013

The biggest bestseller in Norway is the Bible

Norway is considered a hyper-secularized country, but its biggest bestselling book today is a new...

June 06, 2013

Update on “Why Calvinist Baptists but not Lutheran Baptists?”

That post we had the other day about why there can be Calvinist Baptists but...

June 04, 2013

Archbishop of Canterbury on Gay Marriage

In the United Kingdom, gay marriage has passed the House of Commons and is now...

June 03, 2013

Can there be “Lutheran Baptists” or other non-Lutheran Lutherans?

Southern Baptists are currently embroiled in a controversy over "Calvinist Baptists." David Koyzis and Collin...

June 03, 2013

ELCA elects a gay bishop

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (not to be confused with the Lutheran Church Missouri...

May 2013

May 30, 2013

Two kinds of funerals

Funerals being on my mind lately, I offer you an essay I wrote that was...

May 29, 2013

Making the arrangements

My heart isn't in blogging today. I'm certainly not in the mood to complain about...

May 29, 2013

100,000 Christians per year die for their faith

Statistics about the number of Christian martyrs today: A top Vatican official has said around...

May 27, 2013

April 2013

April 29, 2013

Obama: “God bless” Planned Parenthood

Rev. Michael Schuermann calls out the president for confusing his office and for taking God's...

April 26, 2013

Can Christianity survive gay marriage?

Rod Dreher, a Christian writer of the Orthodox persuasion, has written a provocative article for...

April 24, 2013

Church vs. children’s sports

There was a time (I'm sounding old) when community activities were never planned on Sunday...

April 24, 2013

The German state church

Mathew Block, in the course of correcting a media error, explains that the Protestant state...

April 19, 2013

Swimming the Elbe

Those who convert to Catholicism are said to have "swum the Tiber," referring to the...

April 18, 2013

Bad sermons

Karl Barth (not to be confused with the good Karl Barth of the LCMS) was...

April 18, 2013

“The long march through the institutions”

In the course of an article about the Roman Catholic organization Communion and Liberation, a...

April 17, 2013

Easter and Vocation

In the sermon for the third Sunday of Easter, based on John 21:1-19, in which...

April 16, 2013

Being children of God

Last Sunday, Easter 3, our pastor preached on the appearance of the resurrected Jesus to...

April 15, 2013

“Everything in our hearts and minds should be fixed”

As you have probably heard, Rick Warren's 27-year-old son committed suicide. That's about the saddest...

April 12, 2013

LCMS nominations

This item is for those interested in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. Everyone else may...

April 11, 2013

Happy Baptism birthday to me

I didn't grow up a Lutheran, so I don't have the Baptismal sponsors or the...

April 10, 2013

Church authority vs. state authority over marriage

As gay marriage becomes the law of the land in many jurisdictions and, very likely...

April 09, 2013

God is present vs. God is present for you

I hope you had a happy Quasimodogeniti, the Second Sunday of Easter with perhaps the...

April 08, 2013

Chaplain wins Medal of Honor

A Korean war chaplain who died in a POW camp will receive the Medal of...

April 05, 2013

The porta-Church

I have to hand it to the Orthodox in this case, with their strong sense...