Contemporary politics requires raising lots of money. But that is also a formula for corruption, with elected officials potentially giving pay-back to those who gave them money for their campaigns. How can that be avoided? One solution, found to be constitutionally dubious, was to strictly
There is a Creation. And there is also a New Creation. God created the universe in 6 days and on the 7th, He rested. His other stupendous work was when the Second Person of the Trinity became incarnate and took the evils and sufferings of
CareerCast.com has released its annual Jobs Rated report, which ranks 200 jobs according to various metrics, including work environment, pay, and stress level. Physicians are #78, the good pay being negated by the high stress levels and difficult work environment. Pastors come in at #101.
Many Americans are wondering, what difference does Russia’s incursion into the Ukraine make for us? Well, a number of observers are saying that Vladimir Putin might next go after the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania), bordering countries that used to be part of the
You know that old spiritual that asks, “Were you there when they crucified my Lord?. . .when they nailed Him to the tree?. . .when they laid Him in the tomb?. . . .when God raised Him from the tomb?” Well, the answer to that
Easter by George Herbert RISE heart ; thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise Without delayes, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise With him mayst rise : That, as his death calcined thee to dust, His life may make thee gold, and
Great reflections on Hell and what it means that Jesus “descended into Hell,” from Dale M. Coulter: In the Torgau sermon on Christ’s descent, Luther remarks that the paintings depicting this event “show well how powerful and useful this article is, why it took place,
Some of the deepest waters of Lutheran theology and where it makes some of its greatest contributions are in the realm of Christology. For Lent I have been reading The Two Natures in Christ by Martin Chemnitz, that master of Biblical, Medieval, and Patristic (not
For a Good Friday meditation, read The Sacrifice by George Herbert after the jump. It presents the Crucifixion from the point of view of Christ Himself. A repeated pattern in the stanzas is a contrast between how we treat Him and how He treats us.
Theo Hobson, in the British Spectator, critiques the New Atheist insistence that we can have morality–indeed, a better morality–apart from religion. In doing so, he shows that even today’s secular humanist morality, which the atheists take as axiomatic, actually derives from Christianity. A truly atheist,
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