Theology

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...

Willow Creek is imploding, due primarily to a #MeToo sex scandal involving its influential celebrity...

Barna Research has conducted a major study of Protestant pastors and how they are doing...

Have you noticed in a bookstore how so many book covers today depict a character's...

Our recent post about proselytizing has gotten me thinking about "sheep-stealing."  One kind of proselytizing...

Fellow Patheos blogger Mark Driscoll has written a long and thoughtful post on the teaching...

  The Bible is a really good book, most people would agree, but who has...

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a truly great Christian author.  He was a Christian apologist who...

The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod has just issued a major study of the doctrine and...

We blogged about Dan Hitchens' article on politicians who parade their Catholic identity while also...

Today politicians in the U.S. and Europe are proudly trumpeting their Catholic identity, even as they...

Does your church offer multiple worship services, each with a different style?  One traditional, one...