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Abortion Is Soooo Boring
Yesterday, I interviewed journalist Mollie Ziegler Hemingway (of GetReligion.org, patheos.com, etc., etc.) about the near total media silence on the mass-murder trial of Philadelphia abortionist...
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Sheep, Goats and Sanctification
The Lutheran sanctification debate is nothing new. In 2009 threw in my two cents with an article, Sheep Don’t Keep Track. Read it. The Lutheran sanctification debate is also completely unnecessary....
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What It Is
Lutherans call a thing what it is. Both Antinomian and Pietist are historically loaded terms among Lutherans. In the Lutheran sanctification debate, these terms are simply confusing. There may be a...
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All Three Kill
But the Law always accuses us, always shows that God is angry. – Apology to the Augsburg Confession, III, 7 For the Law says indeed that it is God’s will and command that we should walk in a new life,...
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Here Is a Secret
A great quote from David Petersen via Adriane Dorr: Here is a secret: everyone’s life is hard. Everyone hurts. Everyone struggles, loses, is afraid. Everyone has a broken heart. Some people deny it...
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Out of Practice
I surprised myself yesterday. I realized that I was feeling nostalgic for the Kieschnick days. Dr. Gerald Kieschnick was president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod from 2001 to 2010. He was “no...
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Truth in Advertising
The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod opened for business 166 years ago today. In 1984, the LCMS adopted the corporate logo pictured above. A logo is “a symbol or other design adopted by an organization...
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An Act of Aggression
The worship war is not a bilateral conflict; it is a unilateral act of aggression. One side in this conflict has consistently adopted an aggressive posture; the other side, a defensive one. One side...
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No Place in the Church
It’s convention season in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. You’re already hearing it: “Politics has no place in the Church.” I disagree. If politics has no place in the Church, then we have no...
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The Winner
“Lutheranism really is one giant pissing contest.” I read this recently at a blog called “Priestly Rant.” Read the post here. If this statement is true, the PR blog itself is most certainly the...
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Meat Stored in Great Piles
Someone —Otto von Bismarck, John Godfrey Saxe, whoever— once said, “Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.” This weekend is the triennial adult...
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It’s Worth a Try
Dear LCMS Floor Committees, Since you are meeting this weekend, and you can’t go home until all your work is done, here are a few easy, time-saving suggestions. 1) No resolutions affirming the...
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Pope Makes 49 Year-Old Statement
Recently, Pope Francis is reported to have said that atheists can be saved. This is nothing new. Salvation apart from Christian faith has been taught by the papacy since 2000, in the papal document...
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Neither Scripture nor the historic Christian Creeds make any attempt to liken the Trinity to anything else; they simply confess what and who the Trinity is. Why? Because Christian knowledge of the...
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Jesus Is a Trinitarian
Jesus’ theology is thoroughly and conspicuously Trinitarian. Jesus rarely opened his mouth without mentioning the Father and the Spirit. The revelation of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit is woven...
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We Are Not the Lords of History
Yesterday I interviewed Uwe Siemon-Netto who covered the war in Vietnam from 1965-69. When I asked him, “What do you say to the Vietnam veterans listening to us right now?” This was his answer. Thank...
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Be of Good Cheer
There is nothing more annoying than forced cheerfulness. No, wait. Yes there is: genuine cheerfulness. When you’re sad, angry, miserable, genuinely cheerful people make you want to punch them in the...
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Talking about Doctrine
“I think one of the greatest problems is that there is a contingent so dedicated to talking about the doctrine that it basically prevents productive strategizing about increasing congregational...
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Old White Folks Songs and New White Folks Songs
I think the following comment was intended to be a response to this post on Praise bands. I never considered the possibility that the worship war is only a problem for white people. I doubt it is....
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Double Standard
Here’s the double standard of pop-American Christianity: They worry when someone tries to change the pledge of allegiance, but don’t even notice when someone changes the Creed.
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