2014-04-20T17:59:00-04:00

CareerCast.com has released its annual Jobs Rated report, which ranks 200 jobs according to various metrics, including work environment, pay, and stress level.   Physicians are #78, the good pay being negated by the high stress levels and difficult work environment.  Pastors come in at #101. 

2014-04-20T17:59:43-04:00

Many Americans are wondering, what difference does Russia’s incursion into the Ukraine make for us?  Well, a number of observers are saying that Vladimir Putin might next go after the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania), bordering countries that used to be part of the

2014-04-18T13:19:15-04:00

You know that old spiritual that asks, “Were you there when they crucified my Lord?. . .when they nailed Him to the tree?. . .when they laid Him in the tomb?. . . .when God raised Him from the tomb?”  Well, the answer to that

2014-04-18T13:29:12-04:00

Easter  by George Herbert RISE heart ;  thy Lord is risen.  Sing his praise Without delayes, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise With him mayst rise : That, as his death calcined thee to dust, His life may make thee gold, and

2014-04-17T16:55:23-04:00

Great reflections on Hell and what it means that Jesus “descended into Hell,” from Dale M. Coulter: In the Torgau sermon on Christ’s descent, Luther remarks that the paintings depicting this event “show well how powerful and useful this article is, why it took place,

2014-04-18T10:54:35-04:00

Some of the deepest waters of Lutheran theology and where it makes some of its greatest contributions are in the realm of Christology.  For Lent I have been reading The Two Natures in Christ by Martin Chemnitz, that master of Biblical, Medieval, and Patristic (not

2014-04-17T16:53:49-04:00

For a Good Friday meditation, read The Sacrifice by George Herbert after the jump.  It presents the Crucifixion from the point of view of Christ Himself.  A repeated pattern in the stanzas is a contrast between how we treat Him and how He treats us. 

2014-04-17T16:56:46-04:00

Theo Hobson, in the British Spectator, critiques the New Atheist insistence that we can have morality–indeed, a better morality–apart from religion.  In doing so, he shows that even today’s secular humanist morality, which the atheists take as axiomatic, actually derives from Christianity. A truly atheist,

2014-04-17T16:57:38-04:00

You may well be wondering, why is Easter so late this year?  After the jump, an excerpt and a link to an interesting article about how the date for Easter is calculated.  It also demonstrates once again the antiquity of the celebration of Christ’s resurrection,

2014-04-17T10:43:29-04:00

We commemorate quite a lot of things on Maundy Thursday.  Jesus washed His disciple’s feet, giving them–and us–the “mandate”  (maundate; hence, “Maundy”) to love one another.  Then He gave them His body and His blood in bread and wine, thereby making clear the meaning of

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