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July 2010

July 22, 2010

Christendom

While I was in France and Germany, I was most struck by how in the...

July 22, 2010

The Huguenot Cross

I learned that in France, Protestants--particularly Protestant women--can be identified by their wearing the Huguenot...

July 21, 2010

Matt Harrison’s acceptance speech

In case you missed it, here is the newly-elected president of the Lutheran Church Missouri...

July 20, 2010

Revolution in the LCMS

I am thrilled at the election of Matt Harrison as the new president of the...

July 05, 2010

The LCMS Convention

Missouri Synod Lutherans are having their big convention in Houston July 7-17, and it promises...

June 2010

June 24, 2010

Earliest portrait of St. Paul

Archaeologists using lasers to clear away centuries of mineral accretions have uncovered in a 4th...

June 22, 2010

Small groups in church

We discussed this book and this issue a while back, but a piece in USA...

June 21, 2010

What could your church do with a billion dollars?

Pretend that one of the megabillionaires mentioned above lived in your community. To fulfill the...

June 17, 2010

Egypt orders Coptic Christians to allow divorce

The Egyptian government has ruled that Coptic Christians must change their doctrine about divorce and...

June 03, 2010

Funerals

A funeral can be a great help to people who are grieving. A funeral can...

May 2010

May 28, 2010

Martin Luther’s Body

I was browsing through the library, when imagine my surprise when I saw the latest...

May 14, 2010

The blood of Russians washed away their sins

So what is orthodox about this teaching from an Orthodox patriarch? Church debate in Russia...

May 13, 2010

Classical Lutheran Education

The Consortium for Classical and Lutheran Education celebrates its tenth anniversary with its tenth annual...

May 13, 2010

Satellite churches with onscreen pastors

The latest in megachurch trends: Doing without a pastor, except on streaming big screen video:...

May 10, 2010

The ten largest Lutheran church bodies

James Kushiner at the Touchstone blog quotes an article about how the Lutheran church of...

May 06, 2010

Christianity & politics, when everything is politics

Douglas Wilson has some penetrating things to say about Christians getting involved in politics: James...

April 2010

April 30, 2010

Young adults have lost their religion

A Baptist research project finds that the "millennial generation" is "spiritual," but not "religious." Specifically,...

April 29, 2010

Baptism & Call Night

We're in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Our latest granddaughter, Evangeline, was baptized. And then last night...

April 29, 2010

The future of the LCMS

I heard Matt Harrison at the Congress on the Lutheran Confessions meeting I attended, and...

April 27, 2010

The Spirit of Antichrist

The Swedish dissident pastor Fredrik Sidenvall's paper on "Confessing the Faith in an Anti-Christian Culture,"...

April 26, 2010

The ultimate persecution

I was at the Congress on the Lutheran Confessions in Minneapolis last week, giving a...

April 14, 2010

Vocation & Opus Dei

Opus Dei is the Roman Catholic order that has become the bogey-man for paranoid secularists,...

April 13, 2010

Religion of the tribe

Michael Gerson, in a column arguing that Cardinal Ratzinger who later became Pope Benedict actually...

April 08, 2010

What evangelicals need from Lutheranism (and vice versa?)

The late Internet Monk, Michael Spencer, who just passed away, was ecstatic about the new...

April 08, 2010

On vows of celibacy & sexual sin

Luther and the Lutheran Confessions (explaining "thou shalt not commit adultery") on the problems of...

April 07, 2010

Death of the Internet Monk

Michael Spencer, a.k.a. Internet Monk, has died of cancer. (Not to be confused with our...

April 06, 2010

Christian yoga

Yoga construed as just a physical exercise is probably fine. But some people are emphasizing...

April 06, 2010

Pedophile priests & liberal Catholicism

Joseph Bottum, editor of First Things, points out that the cases of the pedophile priests ...

March 2010

March 30, 2010

Catholicism’s secret sins

I'm not a Sinead O'Connor fan, but the Irish singer--notorious for tearing up a picture...

March 29, 2010

Why Holy Week is holy

"For we call this Holy Week not just because of the holy things that happened,or...