Theology

Again, Rev. A. Trevor Sutton, the co-author with me of Authentic Christianity:  How Lutheran Theology...

  Rev. A. Trevor Sutton, the co-writer with me of Authentic Christianity:  How Lutheran Theology...

Even secularists today are talking about the importance of having a sense of "calling"; that...

I stumbled across an interesting account of a long-running debate between the Reformed neo-orthodox theologian...

For Advent we have been thinking through the Nicene Creed, a product of the Council...

Continuing our series that began with Advent, St. Nicholas, & the Deity of Christ, reflections...

    Pictured above is my favorite meme of the season (HT:  Mary Moerbe).  The...

Fleming Rutledge reminds us that Advent is not primarily about the baby Jesus.  Rather its...

Following up with our recent post on exorcism, The Atlantic--which is far from being a Christian or...

Thanksgiving is the one national holiday that has an explicitly religious meaning.  George Washington got...

In my blog post A Lutheran Take on Exorcism and the Demonic, I discussed the work...

At the Rural and Small Town Ministries conference I attended, I got to hear from...

Michelle Obama says that she can "never forgive" Donald Trump for spreading doubt about her...

The Church is growing so rapidly in Africa, Asia, and Latin America that by 2050...

  Have you noticed when talking to non-Christians that often what they object to is...

The Church is discredited:  plagued by corruption, including sex scandals.  Trusting human leaders whose failures...

When I was in Houston last week, my brother and I also visited the Rothko...

The Lutheran Church of Australia at its triennial convention voted "no" on women's ordination. This...

In the course of our excellent Bible study of Job--I never realized how evangelical, how...

I enjoy it when conventional wisdom gets turned upside down.  A good example appeared in...

God is a different kind of being than what we are.  That should be obvious. ...

How could Catholic priests, leaders of a church with some of the highest standards of...

Happy Labor Day, a secular holiday which we here at the Cranach Institute are trying...

Luther's theology of culture, his doctrine of the Two Kingdoms, is often associated with or...

The Lutheran Church of Australia (LCA) is debating the ordination of women to the pastoral...

Our Pastor (and son-in-law), Rev. Ned Moerbe, preached a sermon that taught me some things...

Summer vacation is over!  Back to School!  Good old golden rule days!  For some families,...

As an example of how the ongoing, wide-ranging Catholic sex scandal and its cover-up are...

A grand jury in Pittsburgh investigating just six Pennsylvania dioceses accused 301 Roman Catholic priests...

One of the most prominent heresies of contemporary Christianity is the prosperity gospel, which teaches...