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July 2015

July 22, 2015

Offering our body and blood to our neighbor

Thanks to Steve Bauer, who, in commenting on our earlier post on the connection Luther...

July 20, 2015

The Sacrament and the love of neighbor

Martin Luther, quoted from Bible Studies on Mercy - The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod: There your...

April 2015

April 15, 2015

Why Marco Rubio goes to two churches

A piece on the religious beliefs of presidential candidate Marco Rubio says that he attends...

April 02, 2015

Maundy Thursday and the search for the real Jesus

Anthony Sacramone discusses all of the magazine cover stories about "the search for the real...

March 2015

March 27, 2015

The sacrifice of Christians

Rev. Adam Roe, in the series on vocation at MissionWork, discusses the concept of "sacrifice"...

March 25, 2015

Drinking His cup, being baptized with His baptism

Our sermon for the beginning of Passiontide was Mark 10:32-45, the passage about James and...

October 2014

October 28, 2014

Blood transfusion

The nurse who recovered from Ebola had received a blood transfusion from Dr. Kent Brantly,...

September 2014

September 05, 2014

1,500 year-old confession of faith

Scholars have discovered a 1,500-year-old papyrus from ancient Egypt that contains a remarkable Christian confession,...

May 2014

May 14, 2014

“Spiritual Communion”?

According to Roman Catholicism, you can receive "spiritual communion" even when you don't take actual,...

April 2014

April 17, 2014

George Herbert on Holy Communion

The Invitation Come ye hither all, whose taste Is your waste; Save your cost, and...

April 08, 2014

George Herbert on Sin, Love, & the Sacrament

Miranda Threlfall-Holmes discusses one of my favorite poems, The Agony by George Herbert. It is...

April 03, 2014

Finding the Holy Grail?

Some historians, on the basis of manuscript and carbon-dating evidence, claim to have identified a...

December 2013

December 19, 2013

From eucharistic hymn to Christmas carol

"Let all mortal flesh keep silence" is a hymn about Holy Communion. But now it...

November 2013

November 19, 2013

80 lashes for receiving Communion

Aspects of our faith that are so commonplace that we often take them for granted...

November 08, 2013

Allowing divorced Catholics to take Communion?

Pope Francis and the Roman Catholic hierarchy are reportedly re-considering the practice of denying Communion...

October 2013

October 28, 2013

Holy Communion, Culture, & Vocation

We often talk about how God works through material elements in the sacraments to convey...

May 2013

May 02, 2013

On denying the sacrament for “political” reasons

Confessional Lutherans get excoriated for not admitting members of other churches to the Lord's Supper,...

March 2013

March 28, 2013

Why the Lord’s Supper

Some years ago, I, as a Lutheran, was invited to write about the Lord's Supper...

February 2013

February 01, 2013

Lutheran pastor rejects Baptism, Lord’s Supper

I don't expect non-Lutherans to believe what Lutherans do. I do expect Lutherans to believe...

June 2012

June 05, 2012

Paul’s rebuke of Peter as argument for open communion

Reformed writer Peter Leithhart argues against the closed communion practices of Catholics, Orthodox, and Lutherans...

May 2012

May 14, 2012

Vampires vs. the Blood of Christ

James R. Rogers, a Texas A&M professor and board member of the LCSM Texas District,...

April 2012

April 05, 2012

Maundy Thursday

April 05, 2012

The next step in open communion

In an effort to be even more inclusive than they already are, a diocese in...

March 2012

March 28, 2012

Cultural engagement requires the Sacrament

Peter Leithhart, a Reformed pastor and theologian, says that what evangelicals need if they are...

March 01, 2012

Denying Communion to a lesbian

This story marshalled so much outrage that it made the front page of the Washington...

February 2012

February 01, 2012

Lutheran pastor attacks Lutheran view of Lord’s Supper

An article on the Christian Post website and picked up by RealClearReligion is an in-your-face...

December 2011

December 26, 2011

Eating for death vs. eating for life

Our church was not one of the 10% of American churches that cancelled Sunday services...

December 23, 2011

Keep the “mass” in Christmas

Last time Christmas fell on Sunday it came out that a number of churches had...

November 2011

November 15, 2011

Some Catholics will be denied the Cup

A huge issue during the Reformation was the right of the laity to receive Holy...

October 2011

October 11, 2011

The Black Rubric

I've been studying Anglicanism lately. But then I've run up against the Black Rubric, so-called...