St. Leo (400-460 A.D.) said this in a Christmas sermon, but it still applies! Have a joyous Easter!
St. Leo (400-460 A.D.) said this in a Christmas sermon, but it still applies! Have a joyous Easter!
If you went to the Good Friday Vespers service at St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig 300 years ago, the choir, led by your cantor J. S. Bach, would have performed a little number, the St. John Passion, that would have doubtless moved you greatly as a meditation on the atoning death of Jesus Christ. An account of a performance and its meaning.
This is the place to record Easter memories, Easter reflections, Easter joys, and anything else Easter.
A review of Hermann Sasse's "This Is My Body: Luther's Contention for the Real Presence in the Sacrament of the Altar." In which "one of the foremost confessional theologians of the 20th century" surveys the history of sacramental theology, gives a transcript of the Marburg Colloquy, and explores the significance of the teaching that Christ gives us His body and blood in the Lord's Supper.
An article on Artificial Intelligence and religion reports on "Godbots," featuring AI chats programmed with religious texts. Christians have Bible.Ai, Apostle Paul AI, and a host of Jesus chatbots. And yes, there is a Godbot in which you can chat with Martin Luther. We try it out.
Netflix has started production on a new series of "Chronicles of Narnia" movies that will reportedly include all seven of C. S. Lewis's Christian fantasy novels. The director of the first two films will be Greta Gerwig, fresh off her triumph with "Barbie." Netflix and Gerwig say the movies will be faithful to the sources, including their Christian themes.
Only 8% of white evangelicals approve of Christian Nationalism; what's good about American evangelicalism; and the divorce rate is down and the marriage rate is up.
When we hear of attacks on religious freedom, we usually think of government restrictions or overt persecution. But another kind of attack on religious freedom is emerging in the academic world from legal scholars who are arguing against the very concept of religion being a basic human right.
After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen human embryos, engendered in fertility labs, are human beings with a right to life, panic was stirred up that the ruling would endanger the practice of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). So many Republicans are backtracking on the issue, making pro-life organizations turn against them. What do you think about this controversy?
Capitalism is dead. And technology has killed it. What is taking its place is a reversion to feudalism. So argues Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis in his book "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism."
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