Looking for shalom after Baton Rouge, St. Paul, and Dallas
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The un-countable life: waiting for an Advent in Ferguson
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Pro Re Theologica et Salute Fratrum: Luther as Reformer of Pastoral Care
Another Reformation Day has come and gone. Each year the day gives us occasion to reflect on the significance of the upheavals of the Sixteenth Century—upheavals that changed the religious, social, and cultural landscape of the West, especially the western church. What was at stake? What was it all about? Was it worth it? .. ..
Trying to see clearly in #Ferguson’s haze
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Is it okay for a Christian to be “happy”?
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Renowned historian to speak at Concordia Seminary
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Luther, Laity, and … Lego
A review of the Lego Movie as embodiment of Reformation theology…
The rise and fall (and rise again?) of American denominations
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I don’t know what I’m giving up for Lent…yet
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What’s up among the evangelicals?
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Who is Jesus? Depends on whose Jesus it is
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What makes a book sacred?
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A View of the Gospel From Saturn
A few weeks ago, the Cassini spacecraft flew by Saturn. As it did so, it turned its cameras back toward earth and and snapped pictures of it just as the Voyager 1 space craft did so in 1990. If memory serves me correctly (which does not always do anymore) the image of the earth took about one quarter of a pixel of space on the photograph. Now Cassini-Hyguns has taken a slightly higher resolution photograph in which one can even see the moon along with the earth
On Don Draper, Dostoevsky, and the anti-hero in us all
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Considering immigration on the eve of Independence Day
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