The last of “The Table of Duties” from Luther’s SMALL CATECHISM: THE YOUNG You younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to
More reasons why Michael Spencer thinks <a href="evangelical Christianity is about to collapse in this country: 3. There are three kinds of evangelical churches today: consumer-driven megachurches, dying churches, and new churches whose future is fragile. Denominations will shrink, even vanish, while fewer and fewer
Protesting President Obama’s decision to allow federal funding to destroy human embryos for their stem cells were parents of “snowflake babies.” These are children who were once frozen embryos generated at fertility clinics–the sort of “extra,” unwanted embryos that the stem cell merchants want to
In Luther’s SMALL CATECHISM, the next “holy orders” in “The Table of Duties” are those of employees and employers. EMPLOYEES Servants, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of your heart, as to Christ;
More from Michael Spencer’s piece in the Christian Science Monitor, The Coming Evangelical Collapse. (He discusses these issues further in his blog Internet Monk): Why is this [coming cultural hostility to evangelicalism] going to happen? 1. Evangelicals have identified their movement with the culture war
The Obama administration was supposed to make the world like us again, but so far it has proven embarrassingly inept in the art and the niceties of diplomacy. Great Britain is our closest and most important ally, but when Prime Minister Gordon Brown came for
Mollie Hemingway passes along the good news that the Cranach painting we blogged about that was stolen in Norway has been found. Not at a garage sale but rolled up in a guy’s pickup truck. Click to refresh your memory.
The next dual relationship that constitutes a “holy order” according to the Table of Duties in Luther’s SMALL CATECHISM is that of parents and children: PARENTS Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of
Michael Spencer, a.k.a. Internet Monk (not to be confused with our own Webmonk), describes himself as “a postevangelical reformation Christian in search of a Jesus-shaped spirituality.” He wrote an essay, published in the Christian Science Monitor, no less, that is getting a lot of buzz.
So many discussions of vocations that speak of authority degenerate into arguments about “who has to obey whom.” They forget what Jesus Himself teaches about authority, that it must not be a matter of “lording over” someone, which is how non-believers treat authority, as just
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