Waking Up in Post Christendom
By Adam Francisco
05/14/26
19mins

Waking Up in Post Christendom

The temptation for many believers is either despair or outrage: despair that Christendom is fading, or outrage at the civilization replacing it.
The Theology of Play and the Joy of Repentance
1517 Guest Contributor
1517 Guest Contributor
05/15/26

The Theology of Play and the Joy of Repentance

Through baptism, absolution, and the Lord’s Supper, Christ meets you with his radical forgiveness which changes everything, even the self!
Don't Sleep On Luther's Early Disputations
Caleb Keith
Caleb Keith
05/11/26

Don't Sleep On Luther's Early Disputations

Do not disregard Luther’s early disputations, but appreciate their specificity and recognize their pastoral and theological continuity with his later works.

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Wade Johnston
Wade Johnston
03/29/17

The Only Sane Man in Town

Who was this Jesus, who could do such things?
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
03/29/17

Heaven's High Lungs: A Poem on the Valley of Dry Bones

They stood on their feet, the Father's host, Alive in the Son and Holy Ghost.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
03/26/17

What a Madman Taught Me About Prayer in Life's Chaotic Times

There’s some wild and untamed prayers in the psalms. But they’re fenced in by order, symmetry, predictability. They organize chaos. And they bring order and hope and stability to our chaotic lives.
Bror Erickson
Bror Erickson
03/24/17

Do We Evangelize or Proselytize?

If you don’t believe Jesus Christ—that is, God in the man born of the Virgin Mary—died for the sins of the world, then you can’t evangelize.
Joel Hess
Joel Hess
03/23/17

Anything Else You Worship Will Eat You Alive

Whether one believes Jesus to be God or not, His words and actions proclaim that He did not come to be served but to serve.
Dominick Santore
Dominick Santore
03/21/17

"Touched" By God

Some days, people need a touch. Not just any touch, but something that says, "I care about you, and I love you."
David Rufner
David Rufner
03/20/17

Christians Say the Darndest Things

I’m still laughing now as hard as I laughed back then. And the salve that he gave me in that moment still works some strange magic on me to this day.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
03/18/17

Silencing the Bully Inside Your Head

Inside our heads is a courtroom where our whole lives are put on trial. And we are declared guilty of things. Big things, little things. God things, human things. True things, false things. We never can measure up.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
03/16/17

Our Deepest Fear

There is nothing more appealing than someone telling me I can be whatever I want to be, do whatever I want to do, accomplish whatever I set out to accomplish. No boundaries. No walls.
Erick Sorensen
Erick Sorensen
03/15/17

(Dis-) Contentment

If I'm honest, when I survey my life I don't exude much contentment.
Cindy Koch
Cindy Koch
03/14/17

Death Through the Proverbs

Wisdom speaks in proverbs, parables and riddles. And the simple continue to wander right past her words of life.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
03/13/17

Acquittal By The Attorney's Blood

One of my favorite shows in recent memory is the American law enforcement drama Law & Order.
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