In honor of Martin Luther King Day, I offer you something he said about vocation: If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so
As I said in my own contribution, Patheos has put together a symposium on vocation, involving blogs on the Faith & Work channel and the Evangelical channel. Since Luther’s doctrine of vocation is a major theme of this the Cranach blog, I took part, and
France is holding huge rallies for free speech after the Charlie Hebdo murders, but they have arrested a comedian for his antisemitic speech. Now the Pope, while condemning the terrorist attack, is underscoring that mocking religion is wrong in itself. Issues of free speech are
The U.S. military is now deploying a weaponized laser. It isn’t a Buck Rogers-style light pistol or a Star Trek phaser that looks like a cell phone. It looks like a telescope. But it can zap enemies with perfect accuracy. Its biggest potential, though, is
The Academy Award nominations have been announced, and they are already proving controversial. For example, how could The Lego Movie not get nominated for best animated feature? “Everything Is Awesome” from that movie did get nominated for best song, but you do not want that
The Faith and Work channel at Patheos is sponsoring a symposium with other blogs interested in the subject. That would have to include us at the Cranach institute, since one of the major themes here is the doctrine of vocation. The topic is the “big
There are a number of books in the genre of what has been called “Heavenly tourism.” They tell about someone who died, went to Heaven, and came back to tell the tale. Now the boy featured in The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven, then
After the jump, Biblical scholarship by way of Gilbert & Sullivan’s “I am the very model of a modern major-general.” (more…)
What if archaeologists discovered a parchment that turned out to be the missing letter to the Corinthians alluded to in 1 Cor. 5:9? And what if it were filled with really powerful and helpful teachings? Should it be added to the Bible? The answer is.
Ohio State beat Oregon to win the collegiate football championship, the first one under the new playoff system. Question: Why in America do fans of the winners of big games riot, setting fires, breaking things, threatening cops? In other countries, sports violence is a problem,
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