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August 2010

August 17, 2010

Would proof of God eliminate Christianity?

Joe Carter takes on an intriguing argument: Would evidence for God mean the end of...

July 2010

July 22, 2010

The Huguenot Cross

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

May 2010

May 28, 2010

Martin Luther’s Body

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

April 2010

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 12, 2010

God’s alien work and His proper work

In our Sunday morning Bible class, we are studying Luther's Commentary on Genesis. That work...

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...

February 2010

February 17, 2010

The emergent church meets the “Spirituality of the Cross”

I am very grateful to Dan, who had said that he was influenced by my...

February 13, 2010

The new version of “Spirituality of the Cross”

The new revised, enhanced, and slightly expanded edition of my book The Spirituality of the...

February 10, 2010

Michael Horton on Vocation

I've been appreciating Michael Horton for a long time. His critiques of pop Christianity, his...

January 2010

January 30, 2010

The Catechism as graphic novel

Concordia Publishing House is putting out an edition of Luther's Small Catechism in comic book--I...

December 2009

December 16, 2009

The role of Satan in the Christian’s life

More from Grace Upon Grace: Spirituality for Today by John W. Kleinig on tentatio: Strangely,...

December 15, 2009

Prayer, meditation, temptation

Luther famously said that to be a real theologian takes oratio, meditatio, and tentatio. The...

December 08, 2009

Classical education as a confessional mandate?

Tracing some of those helpful Luther quotes on vocations that some of you had given...

December 07, 2009

Anglos don’t know Lutheranism

I was talking with an Anglican priest and, after we had compared notes about our...

December 03, 2009

Luther’s writings on vocation

I have been charged with putting together some curriculum on Luther's writings on vocation. This...

November 2009

November 23, 2009

THE book on Christian spirituality for today. . .

. . .has to be Grace Upon Grace: Spirituality for Today by John W. Kleinig....

November 11, 2009

Martin Luther and James Madison

I came across this recently, a Letter from James Madison to F.L. Schaeffer, dated 1821,...

November 05, 2009

That God died

I had assumed that yesterday's post about Crucifixion, in which I talked about how God...

October 2009

October 30, 2009

Contemporary Reformation

If the Church were to go through another Reformation today, what do you think needs...

October 27, 2009

Why conservative Anglicans can’t just go to Rome

My colleague Dr. Roberta Bayer, professor of political theory here at Patrick Henry College is...

October 15, 2009

Bach’s smackdown of Frederick the Great

I have just finished a book that I am going to count among my favorites...

September 2009

September 30, 2009

Conversation with the Wittenberg playwright #4

More of my correspondence with David Davalos, author of the play Wittenberg, shared with his...

September 29, 2009

Conversation with the Wittenberg playwright #3

Picking up on my exchange with David Davalos, author of Wittenberg--the play about Luther, Hamlet,...

September 28, 2009

Conversations with the Wittenberg Playwright #2

Continuing the conversation with David Davalos, the author of Wittenberg, this is what I wrote...

September 25, 2009

Conversations with the Wittenberg playwright #1

You may recall that I recently blogged about a play I recently attended entitled Wittenberg,...

September 21, 2009

Puritanical attitudes towards sex

Nearly everything you know about Puritans is wrong. The Thirsty Theologian quotes my friend Leland...

September 14, 2009

Wittenberg, the Play

Last Spring I blogged about a new play called Wittenberg, which is about three individuals...

August 2009

August 07, 2009

Rheticus on TV

If Luther is the definitive Lutheran theologian, and Melanchthon is the definitive Lutheran scholar, and...

August 06, 2009

Henry VIII, persecutor

July 30 was the day of commemoration for Robert Barnes, the English Lutheran who was...