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January 2025

January 09, 2025

Luther Classical College & Other New Schools

Yesterday we discussed the prospects of reform in higher education, concluding that founding a new...

January 07, 2025

Today’s Wise Men Seeking Jesus

Epiphany yesterday commemorated the wise men from the East who journeyed a long way to...

January 06, 2025

Epiphany Miscellany, 1/6/25

Jimmy Carter's genuine accomplishments; independence for Greenland; and indulgences for the Jubilee Year.

December 2024

December 24, 2024

Why Christmas Is at the Beginning of Winter

There is good reason why we celebrate Christmas when we do, near the Winter Solstice,...

December 23, 2024

The Christmas Music That Is Advent Music

Much of our Christmas music, both sacred and secular, is actually Advent music, expressing a...

December 19, 2024

Pardons without Crimes?

President Biden, having extended clemency to over 1,500 offenders, is now, out of fear of...

December 13, 2024

John the Baptist on Vocation

Advent does quite a bit with John the Baptist, the prophet who prepared the way...

December 06, 2024

Luther on Christ’s Return

Advent is the appointed time to contemplate Christ's return. But we need to be careful...

December 04, 2024

Presidential Pardons vs. God’s Pardons

What if, instead of writing out a pardon that frees Hunter from the consequences of...

December 03, 2024

He Came, He Comes, He Will Come

Advent celebrates Christ's coming, which happened in the past in Bethlehem, will happen in the...

November 2024

November 28, 2024

A Thanksgiving Prayer from the First Century

This Thanksgiving, pray a prayer from the earliest days of the Christian church.

November 25, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 11/25/22

Americans join the immigrant wave flooding Europe. Election officials boast about disobeying election law. And...

November 22, 2024

Is the LCMS Evangelical or Mainline Protestant?

An article on the difference between evangelical and mainline Protestants made me wonder where the...

November 20, 2024

Finding the Holy Grail

The quest to find the Holy Grail, the cup that Christ used in His last...

November 19, 2024

How Christianity Invented the “Secular”

A new book shows how Christianity invented what seems to be its nemesis today: the...

November 15, 2024

Did the Reformation End Twenty-Five Years Ago?

Some Catholics are saying that the Reformation is over, so Protestants now should unite with...

November 14, 2024

Christian Realism

Most conservative Christians are happy with the re-election of Donald Trump and the Republican's big...

November 13, 2024

Elections as God’s Judgment

Michael Brendan Dougherty is not a fundamentalist preacher but a sober mainstream conservative pundit. He...

October 2024

October 31, 2024

How God Reforms His Church

This is Reformation Day, commemorating Luther's attempt, not to start a new church, but to...

October 29, 2024

The New Theists

Ross Douthat, writing for the New York Times, thinks religion may be on the verge...

October 25, 2024

Must Reads, 10/25/24

Beginning an occasional feature highlighting articles and posts worth reading: The third wave of dog...

October 24, 2024

From Discordia to Concordia

This year marks the 50th anniversary of when the advocates of theological liberalism walked out...

October 17, 2024

The Masons in History and in the Church

Most people today see all Masons as nothing more than members of a social club. ...

October 16, 2024

The Vatican’s New List of Seven Deadly Sins

The Christian church has long warned against the Seven Deadly Sins. These have been staples...

October 09, 2024

“Reformation Begins with Ourselves”

Herman Bavinck, another Dutch Reformed theologian who worked with Abraham Kuyper in the Anti-Revolutionary Party, urges...

October 08, 2024

The Anti-Revolutionary Party

As Christians are trying to figure out how they should pursue politics and cultural influence...

October 03, 2024

Baptism & Vocation; Identity & Purpose

There is a connection between baptism and vocation, which in turn connects to our identity...

October 01, 2024

The Cult That Grew Out of Mainline Protestantism

We usually associate religious cults with some bizarre made-up religions or with some kind of...

September 2024

September 27, 2024

More Thoughts on the Original Nicene Creed

We blogged about the controversy over the "filioque" in the Nicene Creed. But there are...

September 26, 2024

Confessions of an Ex-Mainline Protestant

I grew up in mainline Protestantism and experienced it from the inside. I witnessed its...