Most people probably don’t know what they are celebrating on Labor Day–“something about Unions”–but we here at the Cranach blog have long sought to fill this holiday with meaning by turning it into a Christian feast commemorating the doctrine of vocation. The term, which just
We Lutherans don’t go in for “personal testimonies” very much, but after the jump is a “testimony” from a pastor who discovered the doctrine of vocation and tells about the difference that has meant in his ministry. (more…)
President Obama will reward the Congressional Medal of Honor to two Viet Nam War vets, Sgt. Maj. Bennie G. Adkins and, posthumously, Specialist Donald P. Sloat (who jumped on a grenade to save three comrades). Also winning the nation’s highest honor posthumously is Lt. Alonzo
Socialists often “nationalize” industries. Totalitarian governments are interested in more than economics. China has announced plans to nationalize Christian theology. (more…)
A federal judge in Utah has ruled that the state’s law banning polygamy is unconstitutional. If the ruling is upheld on appeal–and how could it not be?–that would have a big impact not only on radical Mormons but on American Muslims. And, of course, anyone
Russia has reportedly invaded the Ukraine, sending two armored columns that captured a town near the border. (more…)
Last year almost to the day we blogged about Rev. Henry Gerecke, the LCMS military chaplain who was pressed into service as the Protestant chaplain at Nuremberg, charged with ministering to the Nazi war criminals who were on trial there, many of whom were executed.
We blogged about whether police are too militarized. But, as Mark Hemingway shows, in what his wife Mollie calls the new administrative state, our federal bureaucracies–including those that have nothing to do with law enforcement–are also militarized. He shows that the Department of Health &
Fighting ALS (“Lou Gehrig’s Disease”) is a worthy cause, worth dumping an ice bucket over your head. The main beneficiary of the “Ice Bucket Challenge” is the ALS Association. The problem with that group, though, is that they use a stem cell line from an
The Orthodox Rod Dreher, who quoted Bonhoeffer in an essay on Christians separating themselves from the world, quotes another Lutheran, Søren Kierkegaard. In his Attack upon “Christendom”, his devastating critique of the Danish state church and “cultural Christianity,” Kierkegaard argues that inherent to the faith
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