The "death of God" is a claim made by Nietzsche and arch-liberal theologians who embrace what they call "Christian atheism." But Luther and the Lutheran Confessions say that God did die on the cross--for us--by virtue of the Two Natures of Christ. What are the implications?
I owe a lot to the great Christian poet George Herbert: my dissertation, my career, my writing books, my becoming a Lutheran. Every Maundy Thursday, I return to my favorite of his poems: "The Agony," about Christ in the Garden and the magnitude of sin and love.
I quite randomly stumbled upon a passage from The Book of Sirach (a.k.a., Ecclesiasticus) in the Apocrypha that addresses vocation in a manner that blew me away.
Christopher D. Raymond looks at the recent data about the decline in church affiliation and comes to a stark conclusion: "Orthodox believers stay, while those with unorthodox views leave."
There are two "Last Supper" movies. Even tourists won't be allowed to worship in China. And Netflix plans a female Aslan.
Luther's doctrine of the estates is an important facet--in addition to the Two Kingdoms and the doctrine of vocation--of his teaching about Christianity and society.
Do you think Mark Zuckerberg's maxim of "move fast and break things" is a good philosophy for an individual, a company, or a government?
A brand new study found that 24% of Americans were "Nones" in 2023. But one year later, in 2024, that percentage had dropped to 21%. That is a change from one-fourth to one-fifth.
Underlying many of our moral and cultural issues today is a war against the body, a fantasy of radical disembodiment.
American Protestantism is becoming "post-denominational." So observes Mark Tooley, who thinks it likely that many denominations will just cease to exist over the next ten years. But what would that mean, not having denominations?
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