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John Fea, in what has become a must-read age-of-Trump blog about American religion, quotes from C.S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters in a recent post: Let him begin by treating the Patriotism or the... Read more
Mark 10:42-45 AMP "Calling them to Himself, Jesus said to them, "You know that those who are recognized as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them; and their powerful men exercise authority over... Read more
The Lutheran Church of Australia (LCA) is debating the ordination of women to the pastoral office. Three times the proposal has been voted down, but it's up again at the upcoming convention in... Read more
I begin with the best of intentions, but rabbit holes multiply like bunnies, and are nigh on irresistible. I'm teaching a course this fall on Evangelical spirituality, and so it started with Francis... Read more
It's getting hard to keep quiet about the cynical gamesmanship going on amidst the far-right cardinals in the latest iteration of the Roman Catholic sex abuse scandal. As a survivor of church-based... Read more
