I used to be the Provost and Professor of Literature at Patrick Henry College, the Director of the Cranach Institute at Concordia Theological Seminary, a columnist for World Magazine and TableTalk, and the author of over 20 books on different facets of Christianity & Culture. Now I am retired and devoting my time to writing and my grandchildren.
In October 2005 I began this blog with the intention of focusing on Christianity and Culture. Though I post on all kinds of things–Christianity and Culture includes a lot!–I’d like to use this blog to help sort out how Christians should approach cultural issues. For this I hope to enlist your help. This is a discussion blog, not just a pontificating blog, so I post items to provoke lots of back-and-forth COMMENTS.
I have found Luther’s theology of culture–which is strangely little known in today’s evangelical scene–to be especially helpful. His doctrine of vocation seems to be the key to how Christians can live out their faith in the culture in every station and walk of life (in the workplace, in the family, in the church, and in our citizenship). His doctrine of the Two Kingdoms seems to be the key to how we can be in the world without being of the world, and shows how God is rules even in the secular sphere. The great Reformation artist
Lucas Cranach , for whom this blog is named, exemplified those principles. I’d like to use this blog to brainstorm on how they can be carried out today.
So, welcome and come back often!
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