Paul Raabe reflects on the label “Lutheran” and how, in some contexts, it does not communicate to most Americans. We need to be able to explain ourselves to outsiders in ways intelligible to them. Maybe a church sign should say: “A Gospel-Baptism-Lord’s Supper-Bible-Creedal-Liturgical Church – Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod.” These descriptions are the markers of our church body
Leo Sanchez participates in a discussion hosted by Darrell Bock of Dallas Theological Seminary
Here is the original post: Why should Protestants care about the Pope?
Read the rest here: One lesson the church can learn from postelection America
They aren’t really all that interested in us; but we should be interested in them
NPR just started what they promise will be a series of stories on “losing faith,” stories about people who were religious believers but no longer believe. The series began with a woman who was a Methodist minister until she “came out” as an atheist at an American Atheists convention. There are so many things to ..
Can you imagine The New York Times printing a critique of scientific atheism? That fact alone might be taken as wry proof for the existence of God!
Looking backward and forward in the present
Reflections from a campus pastor, Greg Michael
A look at a Luther quote from the popular book, by Pastor Ben Haupt
A more appropriate title might have been Hell is Hyperbole: What God wants, God gets
A Christian Father’s Sincere Love, and a Deeply-Flawed Understanding of Salvation
May 21 has come and gone, we’re all still here. But “the end times” and what will happen to us when either the or our end comes is still on the minds of many. Two recent books have been runaway bestsellers, one on heaven, one (ostensibly) on hell. The latter has received blogospheric amounts of ..
