Once again I see on the LCMS website in the “View from Here” feature an article I wrote a long time ago, I think for Lutheran Witness. It takes up what has been called “the scandal of particularity”; that is, the claim that there is
Once again I see on the LCMS website in the “View from Here” feature an article I wrote a long time ago, I think for Lutheran Witness. It takes up what has been called “the scandal of particularity”; that is, the claim that there is
McKay Coppins notes a change in the message of Republicans and social conservatives in particular. No longer are they pushing for moral issues, apparently feeling that those battles have been lost. Instead, they are fighting for religious freedom, for the liberty of religious people, at
The Hollywood Reporter has published excerpts from a new book documenting the ways that the American film industry collaborated with the Nazis in order to keep selling tickets in Germany. From the introduction to the excerpt, linked after the jump: In devastating detail, an excerpt
The United States has closed virtually all of its embassies in the Middle East and has issued strong warnings to Americans in that region and in Northern Africa that a terrorist attack may be coming soon. This is reportedly based not just on the usual
Rachel Held Evans tells about how churches that want to reach young people keep missing the point, trying to be cooler and hipper and more contemporary instead of attending to the far greater issues of substance. Yes, she is calling for a measure of liberalism,
Christians struggle with depression–including the bleakest, blackest clinical depression–like everyone else. On Emily Scrivener’s blog A New Name—Emily has written about her own struggle with anorexia–a guest writer, Glen, posts about evangelicals’ bouts with depression. He writes about what helps and what hinders in the
What is the eternal destiny of children who die in the womb or who are aborted? Some have said that their original sin merits eternal condemnation. Most such a horrible conclusion hasn’t rung true for most Christians. Roman Catholics have posited the existence of “Limbo,”
Remember Darryl Strawberry, the baseball superstar whose life came apart because of alcohol and drugs? Well, he turned to Christianity, which really did put his life back together, and now he is a pastor, with a special outreach to alcohol and drug addicts. And for
According to British journalist John Naughton, the consequences of the NSA surveillance scheme, as revealed by Edward Snowden, go far beyond questions of terrorism, espionage, or individual privacy. They impact the nature and governance of the internet and spell the end of the “world-wide” part
The convention of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod is over. There were no big controversies. Virtually all of the resolutions passed, overwhelmingly, and those that didn’t were defeated overwhelmingly. No challenges to Lutheran orthodoxy even came up. The delegates were pretty much all on the
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