President Biden's vaccine mandate raises enormous constitutional problems. But his supporters don't seem to care, preferring rule by decree to the rule of law. Does COVID really justify that kind of overreach?
President Biden's vaccine mandate raises enormous constitutional problems. But his supporters don't seem to care, preferring rule by decree to the rule of law. Does COVID really justify that kind of overreach?
Juhana Pohjola, who will be tried for his part in the publication of a tract on Biblical sexuality, has been made bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland. An explanation of Lutheran bishops and why Scandinavian confessional churches have "Mission" in their names.
A statement by confessional Lutherans worldwide protesting the prosecution of Juhana Pohjola and Päivi Räsänen offers helpful guidelines in distinguishing between the authority of the state and the authority of the church.
In the aftermath of the Afghanistan debacle, many observers are seeing the end of America's dominance and leadership in the world. Some say that America is still strong, but the very strengths they cite are in jeopardy.
We have problems coming to terms with our bodies. This is true of both secularists and Christians, for many of whom "the body doesn't matter." Yet many of our current issues hinge on our understanding of the body. Pope John Paul II broke new ground with his "theology of the body." Now we have a Protestant take on the subject from the Australian Lutheran theologian John W. Kleinig. Read more
The Swedish theologian Einar Billing stresses how the doctrine of vocation is related to the gospel, to our forgiveness of sins through Christ.
I have heard that "social Darwinism" was the invention of Herbert Spencer, 19th century Robber Barons, and others, who were said to have misunderstood or misapplied Darwin's ideas. It turns out, though, that Darwin himself believed that his theory of evolution through the survival of the fittest applies not only to the origin of species but to human society, and that our impulse to care for the poor, the disabled, and the weak interferes with our evolutionary progress.
A recent Gallup poll found that church membership in the United States has fallen to below 50%, sparking still more commentary on the decline of religion. But follow-up research has found that most of those non-members still identify with a particular religion and a substantial number still attend church every Sunday! Evidently, social scientists don't quite know how to get at religion.
Homeschooling has shot up dramatically over the last two years, to the point that today one out of five families with children is homeschooling.