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April 2021

April 23, 2021

What They Are Saying About “Spirituality of the Cross,” 3rd edition

The new edition of my book "Spirituality of the Cross" has been endorsed by some...

April 22, 2021

Why the New Edition of “Spirituality of the Cross” Is Needed Today

To explain why I think this new edition of my book "Spirituality of the Cross"...

April 21, 2021

The New, Improved Edition of “Spirituality of the Cross”

The third edition of my most popular and impactful book, "Spirituality of the Cross," has...

March 2021

March 16, 2021

Vaccines, Vocation, and Competitive Agency

Many American Christians lack the neighbor-centered ethic and the understanding that God works through other...

March 04, 2021

What to Do About the Backlash Against Evangelicals

When evangelicalism was popular, virtually all denominations tried to emulate it, resulting in a loss...

September 2020

September 04, 2020

Recovering the Atonement

The doctrine of the atonement--that on the cross Christ bore our sins and endured the...

August 2020

August 03, 2020

The New Lutheran Witness Blog

The Lutheran Witness, the magazine of the LCMS, has a new internet presence, including a...

July 2020

July 10, 2020

The Lutheran Aquinas

The scholastic theology of St. Thomas Aquinas was masterful in its systematic rigor. There was...

May 2020

May 07, 2020

Church Decline Isn’t Reversed by Contemporary Music & Worship Styles

According to the new American Enterprise study of American religion, the decline in church membership and...

April 2020

April 29, 2020

A Nomination for Lutheran Sainthood?

We Lutherans consider every Christian to be a "saint," though at the same time a...

April 14, 2020

What Is So Wonderful about Lutheran Worship

A convert to Lutheranism describes her appreciation for the "theological craftsmanship" of Lutheran liturgical worship.

March 2020

March 11, 2020

The Catholic Elements in Contemporary Worship

Those who criticize us Lutherans for being "too Catholic" often hold "Catholic" beliefs themselves. Contemporary...

February 2020

February 03, 2020

The Rapper Flame Becomes a Lutheran

Christian hip-hop artist Flame (Marcus Gray) has announced that he has become a Lutheran and...

December 2019

December 04, 2019

Faith + Reason, Logos and Logic

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

November 2019

November 18, 2019

Discovering Lutheran Theology

Matt Whitman, who earlier made a video about visiting a Lutheran church, has a sequel...

November 04, 2019

Discovering Lutheranism

The word about Lutheranism is getting around.

October 2019

October 30, 2019

Swimming the Mississippi

Disaffected evangelicals sometimes swim the Tiber, going over to Rome. Others swim the Bosporous, to...

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...

July 2019

July 23, 2019

A New Bible Translation (by Lutherans)

I received a review copy of a new Bible translation: the Evangelical Heritage...

June 2019

June 25, 2019

Presenting the Augsburg Confession

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

May 2019

May 24, 2019

“What’s a Lutheran?”

Dawn Bornemann posted on her Face Book page a link to something on a church...

July 2018

July 25, 2018

Confession and Absolution

The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod has just issued a major study of the doctrine and...

July 04, 2018

The Lutheran Hero of the American Revolution

Among the heroes of the American Revolution, which we celebrate on this fourth of July,...

June 2018

June 29, 2018

My Thoughts on “The Benedict Option”

I finally read Rod Dreher's The Benedict Option: a Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian...

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...

May 2018

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...

April 2018

April 12, 2018

“Beyond Anything I’ve Seen Before from Modern Lutheran Writers”: A Review of Our New Book

I hate promoting myself, but I have to share with you this review of my...

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...

December 2017

December 14, 2017

Mary, the Mother of God

Roman Catholics venerate Mary, the mother of Jesus, with many titles: Queen of Heaven (the notion that...