Easter Greetings from our friend George Herbert!
Easter Greetings from our friend George Herbert!
The popular Good Friday hymn "My Song Is Love Unknown" is based on two poems by George Herbert. I quote my contribution to "Lutheran Service Book: Companion to the Hymns," in which I unpack the hymn.
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.
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