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April 2015

April 10, 2015

The Luther Reading Challenge

Some people from the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasburg, France, have been teaching Luther...

March 2015

March 18, 2015

Super-Christians & vows against vocation

In the second in Mission Work's series on a Lutheran perspective on faith & work,...

March 03, 2015

Luther’s favorite Bible verses

You know those 76 red volumes of the collected works of Luther in English? Well,...

February 2015

February 26, 2015

The comfort of Baptism

Dr. Benjamin Mayes is working with Concordia Publishing House on the new translations of Luther's...

February 16, 2015

The fastest-selling Playmobil of all time

From Martin Luther Playmobil Toy is Fastest-Selling of All Time: Astronomical sales of a...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

Luther, Madison, and the Two Kingdoms

Rev. Matthew Harrison, the president of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, discusses a letter President...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

Blaming the Reformation

I've been reading various cultural critiques of the mess we've gotten ourselves into, and several...

October 30, 2014

Luther rap

For Reformation week. . .

September 2014

September 15, 2014

Luther on changing a baby’s diaper (rerun)

[Mollie Hemingway's quotation from Luther's "The Estate of Marriage" (1522) reminded me that I blogged...

June 2014

June 10, 2014

The father of modern journalism: Martin Luther

World Magazine editor Marvin Olasky writes about how an independent press has its roots in...

March 2014

March 04, 2014

Luther quotes that Luther didn’t say

Justin Taylor has a useful post entitled 6 Quotes that Luther Didn’t Actually Say. After...

January 2014

January 30, 2014

Luther and bowling?

Martin Luther's influence goes far beyond the theology of the Lutheran Church. His putting the...

November 2013

November 11, 2013

A day of two Martins

Today is the feast day of St. Martin of Tours, which is appropriate since he--an...

October 2013

October 29, 2013

“We are beggars; this is true”

The Reformation can be summed up in six words, according to our pastor in his...

June 2013

June 12, 2013

Luther on Learning

Thanks to Prof. Scott Ashmon of Concordia University Irvine for yet another great quote, this...

May 2013

May 03, 2013

The Freedom of a Christian

What's the best book by Martin Luther to start with? The answer is simple: The...

April 2013

April 26, 2013

An opera about Katie Luther

Remember Lori Lewis, who used to be a frequent commenter on this blog? She is...

April 23, 2013

Luther memes

I stumbled upon He Rice Tanned (read it fast), a collection of sometimes humorous Luther...

March 2013

March 12, 2013

Luther on dogs

Last week we were on Spring Break, visiting our daughter, son-in-law, and three grand-daughters in...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Reforming the Church

Today is Reformation Day, the 495th anniversary of Martin Luther posting the 95 Theses against...

September 2012

September 26, 2012

An art critic discovers Luther

Daniel Siedell is a Christian art critic and curator, the author of God in the...

August 2012

August 31, 2012

Luther’s “wise Turk” quote that he didn’t say

Now that a Mormon is running for president and tends to be favored by Christian...

July 2012

July 06, 2012

Ascent theology

Useful and broadly applicable paradigms from Pastor Matt Richard: During the time of Martin Luther...

July 06, 2012

Lucas Cranach, cover story

The cover of Books & Culture, the Christian culture journal, features Lucas Cranach, and the...

July 03, 2012

Love that bears burdens

Jim Rademaker passed along this quotation from Luther from the collection Faith Alone: A Daily...

April 2012

April 13, 2012

Giving Luther a hit record

A while back ago we blogged about that YouTube video of Lyle Lovett and other...

April 06, 2012

“God hidden in the death of Christ”

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams (who has announced that he is stepping down) has...

April 03, 2012

Luther and the Euro crisis

From Lutheranism to its depths to Lutheranism in its shallows. . . The BBC, of...

December 2011

December 28, 2011

“How Luther went viral”

The Economist tells how Luther, in effect, used social media: Although they were written in...

November 2011

November 22, 2011

Luther on big business

Thanks to Tom Hering for this quotation from Martin Luther, On Trading and Usury, 1524:...