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The Supreme Court, a "minister," and the issue of trust
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in perhaps the most significant case involving religious liberty and the separation of church and state in decades. But it got me thinking about more than liberty.
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The Written World
Listen to this excellent BBC Radio 4 program
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Bach’s Oratorio on a Sunday Morning
Should we fear that high art, like the music of Bach, might die within the church?
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Why a “Lutheran church”?
Why is there (still) a Lutheran Church? Old perspectives for new questions.
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New Book: Seventeenth Century Lutheran Meditations and Hymns
The full preface to the book, written by Robert Kolb
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The Bible as literature: Marilynne Robinson on "the book of books"
The novelist Marilynne Robinson, who always writes eloquently, writes eloquently of the innumerable connections between the Bible and other works of art. I think she’s on to something.
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Five inner demons, four better angels . . .
. . . and a more peaceful 2012? That’s not yet another take on the 12 Days of Christmas, it’s what Steven Pinker, Harvard Psychologist, concludes in his most recent book The…
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Finding Christmas in an incomplete sentence
The current liturgical church year is a year to read the Gospel of Mark. But what are we to do at Christmastime with the only gospel that says nothing about the nativity?
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LAY BIBLE INSTITUTE asks “Are We Still Fighting the Crusades?” – Jan 2012
Paul Robinson will lead the winter Lay Bible Institute, “Are We Still Fighting the Crusades?” The Institute will take place Wednesday evenings, Jan 11-Feb 1, 2012 on the Concordia Seminary campus.
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