Today we Americans are privileged to participate in what has been called the “civic sacrament” of voting. Elections for public office are not new, of course. They were staples of the Greek democracy and the Roman republic. The papacy has always been an elected position.
More and more pastors are endorsing particular candidates from the pulpit, purposefully defying the IRS law for non-profit tax-exempt organizations. So far the IRS is ignoring the violations, but the pastors are goading the agency by sending it tapes of their sermons. Is this a
The Washington Post had a feature story about the difficulties parents are having in helping their children with their homework, thanks to the new approach to math required by the Common Core educational reforms. Instead of teaching children to learn to calculate by applying math
Some may say, why are you Lutherans making a big deal out of All Saints’ Day? I thought Luther was against all of that cult of the saints stuff. Well, Reformation Christians have a different take on what a saint is. (more…)
A new study has discovered what is being called the “holy grail” for keeping teenagers in the church when they become adults: Parents. If their parents talked about their faith at home, showed that their faith is important to them, and were active in church,
For all of the Democratic campaign rhetoric accusing pro-lifers of conducting a “war on women,” it turns out that 29% of Democrats are pro-life. Now the antiabortion Susan B. Anthony List is doing some creative campaigning to enlist pro-life Democrat women to persuade them to
Here at the Cranach Institute, we not only make predictions, we check them. Twice at this blog, at the beginning of the baseball season and at the beginning of the playoffs, we held a forum to predict what baseball teams would make it through the
Happy Halloween! Happy Reformation Day! We’ll be posting on both of those holidays today. Both have reference, of course, to the really big holiday of the church year on the day after, All Saints’ Day. All the ghosts and devils were thought to come out
I’ve been reading various cultural critiques of the mess we’ve gotten ourselves into, and several put the blame on the Reformation. The Reformation gave us radical individualism! The Reformation gave us the notion that truth is whatever we interpret it to be! The Reformation drained
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