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December 2019

December 19, 2019

Luther & the Controversy over Liberalism

In the controversy over the value of liberal democracy, it's hard to see how Luther...

December 17, 2019

“Now I Can Come to Him”

"If Christ had arrived with trumpets and lain in a cradle of gold, his birth...

December 04, 2019

Faith + Reason, Logos and Logic

Faith and reason need each other. Faith without reason can degenerate into superstition and fanaticism. ...

October 2019

October 31, 2019

Reforming Today’s Church

Reforming means fixing what is broken, returning something to its essence. The contemporary church today,...

October 04, 2019

Faith in God and Good Works for Your Neighbor

Christians have long struggled with the competing claims of faith and good works. Luther makes...

September 2019

September 27, 2019

How the Reformers Were More Catholic Than the Catholics

Onsi Kamel grew up as an evangelical but became highly attracted to Roman Catholicism. In...

September 16, 2019

Integralism, the Pope, and the Emperor

As Christians wrestle with the problems of holding onto the faith in a time of...

June 2019

June 25, 2019

Presenting the Augsburg Confession

Today, June 25, is the 489th anniversary of the presentation of the Augsburg Confession, which...

June 07, 2019

Catholic Conservatives vs. Evangelical Conservatives

In our post about the controversy over the direction of conservatism between Sohrab Ahmari and...

April 2019

April 18, 2019

The Spiritual as Conveyed by the Material

On this Maundy Thursday, when Christ instituted the Sacrament of His Body and Blood, it's...

April 06, 2019

Happy Cranach Day!

April 6 is the Day of Commemoration in the Lutheran calendar for artists Lucas Cranach...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

“Two Kinds of Righteousness” and Vocation

I'm in a reading group that just finished discussing Luther's Two Kinds of Righteousness. Friends,...

October 2018

October 31, 2018

Reformation Then and Now

The Church is discredited: plagued by corruption, including sex scandals. Trusting human leaders whose failures...

September 2018

September 20, 2018

The Catholic Sex-Abuse Scandal Is Bigger Crisis Than the Reformation?

The priest sex-abuse scandal is the biggest crisis to hit the Roman Catholic church since...

August 2018

August 31, 2018

Luther’s Two Kingdoms as the Opposite of Augustine’s City of God

Luther's theology of culture, his doctrine of the Two Kingdoms, is often associated with or...

July 2018

July 23, 2018

When Poland Was Lutheran

Poland may be the world's most Catholic country. But at the time of the Reformation,...

June 2018

June 26, 2018

An Example of a Christian Nation

Poland officially crowned Jesus Christ as its king. It also remains resolutely pro-life. Christian morality...

June 15, 2018

The Lord’s Supper as God’s Work

Most discussions of the Lord's Supper among Christians of different theologies focus on the question...

May 2018

May 29, 2018

Is Pope Francis Like Luther?

A number of observers are comparing Pope Francis to Martin Luther. Both are reformers of...

May 25, 2018

Will the New Critics of Liberal Democracy Turn Against Religious Liberty?

A number of conservative thinkers, in trying to address the political and cultural problems of...

May 22, 2018

“The Evangelical Church” as the “Catholic Church Purged of Certain Heresies & Abuses”

I quite randomly stumbled upon this quotation from Lutheran theologian Hermann Sasse*, the anti-Nazi activist...

May 11, 2018

“Now He Is Very Near”: Luther on the Ascension

More on the Ascension of Christ. . . .I keep reading on evangelical sites that...

May 09, 2018

How Religious Success Can Threaten Faith

Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) is a thinker I want to look into more, writing as...

April 2018

April 30, 2018

Luther and Trump?

Did Martin Luther give us Donald Trump? Are Lutherans responsible for getting Trump elected? This...

March 2018

March 08, 2018

Luther’s Musical Innovations

Christianity Today's online Christian History feature has a special section on Martin Luther this month. It...

February 2018

February 27, 2018

Catholic, Lutheran, & Reformed Approaches to the Poor

I've been reading a ground-breaking new book in the field of the sociology of religion...

January 2018

January 19, 2018

An Interview About Our New Book

The Concordia Publishing House blog has posted an interview with Rev. Trevor Sutton and me...

January 11, 2018

The Protestant Reformation & the Protestant Revolution

Yesterday's post on the Reformation of America, made me realize that the distinction between revolution...

January 10, 2018

The Reformation of America

A revolution approaches problems by overthrowing the old order and replacing it with something completely...

January 05, 2018

Luther on Epiphany and Vocation

Today is the 12th and last day of Christmas. (Happy drummers drumming day!) Tomorrow is...