One great thing about our post-denominational age is that it has opened up opportunities to make common cause with other Lutherans who, despite their differences and eccentricities, can agree on some of the most important things.
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03/18/26
We can willingly admit the fact that we're just like tax collectors and thieves.
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12/22/16
In his Gospel account, Luke challenges us to play "Where is Jesus?"
12/19/16
“It’s bigger on the inside” is not only an evocative literary device, it is also a phrase heavy laden with Good News found in the true story of Christianity, especially at Christmas.
12/07/16
The devil is effective with this attack because it calls out all the things a Christian sinner experiences as simultaneous sinner and saint.
10/29/16
True freedom, Luther discovered, is found in Jesus crucified who sets us free.
10/20/16
Over and over, generation after generation, sinners repeat the same mistake. "How is it possible that God can be a man," we ask.
10/06/16
We who fall within the Protestant camp of Christianity have longstanding issues with ritual. I get that. Ritual is often abused. Idolatrized. It can easily devolve into a hollow act of religious farce.
09/23/16
Fairy tales are but one chapter in the book we call storytelling. We may prefer reading other kinds of stories (mystery, science fiction, and so on).
09/22/16
Imagine if Zacchaeus posted on Jerusalem's Facebook a selfie with Jesus. The top dog among the tax-gougers with Christ at his dinner table. Oh, the outrage! The puritanical zealots would have been tweeting and blogging about it for months.
09/22/16
Not long ago I was having a conversation with a friend. She was facing a big decision about her career with a deadline looming for a decision.
09/20/16
We see someone driving a fancy car, owning a big home, having healthy children and an attractive spouse. Instantly, almost without a second's thought, we assume they are successful. Life is good for them.
09/15/16
For those of you unfamiliar with the Richter scale, our friends over at Wikipedia define it as a 1930s invention that "is a base-10 logarithmic scale, which defines magnitude as the logarithm of the ratio of the amplitude of the seismic waves to an arbitrary, minor amplitude."
08/31/16
I love books. I love authors. I love the way putting words down on paper incarnates ideas that might otherwise remain ghosts of the mind, flitting here and there in our gray matter.
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