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You want to read a good Christmas book?  You can't do better than the one...

Christmas greetings to all of you!  Many thanks to both long-time readers and the legions...

  It's Christmas, hailed in at least one secular song as "the most wonderful time...

Back in 1984, British musician Bob Geldof put together "Band Aid," a "super-group" of pop...

One of the greatest texts for Advent is Isaiah 40.  It reminds us that Advent is...

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

Should we start with the teaching we want to convey and then devise a translation...

Hanukkah starts today, December 12, and lasts until December 20.  Jesus Himself observed it, as...

We often think of God as an abstract idea, as an impersonal force, or as...

How different from us is God! How different in His thinking, His desires, and His...

Why doesn’t God do something about all the evil in the world? The Bible says...

The season of Advent has begun! The word comes from the Latin, meaning “coming to”...

Last year, as we blogged about, in connection with renovation work on Jerusalem's Church of...

In our last post on Mark Mattes's new book Martin Luther's Theology of Beauty, we...

The portrayal of St. Joseph as an old man is not from the Bible but...

There is a newly discovered and authenticated painting by Leonardo da Vinci, a painting of...

  We posted about the “Filial Correction” in which a number of conservative Catholics accused Pope...

Scot McKnight points us to a quotation from Papias, a first century Christian, who tells...

Martin Luther challenged and continues to challenge Roman Catholic theology in some profound ways. But...

Christianity is reportedly in decline in the West, especially among trendy millennials.  And yet, the...

Lutheran theology is pretty much the opposite of the Prosperity Gospel.

I came across a sermon from Johann Tetzel, the indulgence peddler who provoked Luther's 95...

I'm at the Conference on Classical Lutheran Education in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the theme of which this year...

  More from the Lutheran artist Fritz von Uhde, another variation on the theme of...

In researching yesterday's post on Saying Grace, I came across this painting.  I said to...

Yesterday was Pentecost, the great festival remembering God's gift of the Holy Spirit.  Thanks to...

There is guilt, the inner torment that comes from doing what is wrong.  And there...

Some people think that Christ’s ascension into Heaven means that He is no longer with...

The communion practice of the Roman Catholic Church, up until Vatican II, was for the...

Forensic archaeologists have been extracting the DNA that can still be found in old bones...