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April 2008

April 25, 2008

Wearing your faith on your car

Florida lawmakers debate offering a Christian license plate: I raise three questions: (1) Do you...

April 25, 2008

Cult of the Saints

Padre Pio was an Italian monk who apparently bore the stigmata, the bleeding wounds of...

April 18, 2008

The First Catholic President

If Bill Clinton could be termed the first Black president, George W. Bush could be...

April 17, 2008

Here comes the Pope

The Pope is here, and Washington, D.C., that secularist haven, is all excited. The Washington...

April 16, 2008

Music for the Masses

The Pope's here. Did you realize the Catholics too are torn in a worship war?...

April 14, 2008

Generating culture

An article in the Washington Post on the Pope's visit to D.C. Tuesday includes a...

April 08, 2008

Falls Church wins

Falls Church, one of the oldest congregations here in Virginia, broke away from the Episcopal...

April 04, 2008

Investigative Reporting on “Issues”

M. Z. Hemingway, who wrote that Wall Street Journal piece on the "Issues, Etc." controversy...

April 03, 2008

McCain, baptism, and keeping his faith private

McCain shies away from religion talk - Jonathan Martin - Politico.com: Raised Episcopalian, McCain now...

March 2008

March 31, 2008

“Issues, etc.” is crunchy

Now Rod Dreher, author of Crunchy Cons: The New Conseervative Counterculture and Its Return to...

March 28, 2008

But is “Issues, etc.” cost-effective?

The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod has finally released information about why its radio show "Issues,...

March 28, 2008

“Issues, etc.” according to the Wall Street Journal

M. Z. Hemingway explains everything you need to know about the current controversy over the...

March 24, 2008

Two models of ministry

Michael Horton, one of our most insightful Christian writers, has a striking article in "Touchstone,"...

March 21, 2008

Issues, etc., update

HT to Pastor Bryan Wolfmueller, whose district president Randal Golter, of the Rocky Mountain District,...

March 20, 2008

The Issues, Etc., mystery

I don't want this to be just a Lutheran blog, so I don't usually blog...

March 17, 2008

The passion of Passion Week

Something our pastor said in church yesterday threw into high relief what we mean by...

March 17, 2008

Happy Missionary Day

Today is another holiday that we should reclaim: St. Patrick's Day. Instead of just making...

March 17, 2008

Obama’s preacher

We posted questions some time ago about Trinity United Church of Christ, which Barack Obama...

March 17, 2008

The pope & Luther, fact-checked

The report that the Pope is set to rehabilitate Martin Luther, which we blogged about...

March 10, 2008

Ancient-Future Worship

The "Washington Post" published an article on how many evangelical churches are now, in a...

March 10, 2008

Online confessional booths?

There is a "future" dimension, though, to that Ancient-Future worship phenomenon that some of us...

March 07, 2008

Pope makes nice with Luther

The Pope is now praising Martin Luther: Pope Benedict XVI is to rehabilitate Martin Luther,...

March 07, 2008

The Inquisition, revisited

The Vatican has put together a museum exhibit on the Inquisition, supposedly trying to show...

March 05, 2008

Religious affiliation & culture

Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, president of Chicago Theological Seminary, in her discussion of the new findings...

March 04, 2008

Sheilaism

More naming the problem from Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, quoting Robert Bellah: The extreme of this...

March 03, 2008

Post-denominational

The president of Chicago Theological Seminary, Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, gives us another useful word to...

February 2008

February 29, 2008

Buckley’s advice to Christian activists

Christianity Today online has dusted off an interview with the recently-deceased William F. Buckley from...

February 27, 2008

Flexidoxy

Naming something is the first step to dealing with it. Thanks to Terry Mattingly for...

February 26, 2008

Protestant numbers slide

Protestants are just about to slip down into minority status, according to this report. "Whereas...

February 22, 2008

Church TV update

OK, churches can go back to having Superbowl parties again: NFL Reverses Call On Church...