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1 min|04/15/16On this episode, the Thinking Fellows do things differently. Deviating from the typical Loci topics, the guys interview Pastor Brian Thomas. Brian Thomas is the author of 1517 the Legacy Project's latest book Wittenberg vs. Geneva. The Fellows talk about the book and briefly cover how Lutheranism differs from Calvinism. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.
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13 mins read|03/17/16By Philip Melanchthon (from the 1535 Loci Communes), translated by Scott L. Keith, Ph.D., edited by Kurt Winrich
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15 mins read|02/22/16The term Gospel came to mean a new kind of proclamation so that the Law and the new doctrine [Gospel] are distinguished in such a way that the new doctrine gains primary influence.
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12 mins read|02/05/16By Philip Melanchthon (from the 1535 Loci Communes), translated by Scott L. Keith, Ph.D.
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11 mins read|12/02/15We are like the spoiled children of kings who spit in the face of paupers on the street. We have been given so much, yet we treasure so little.
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13 mins read|11/03/15As Luther’s efforts at reform began to build, so did the vacancies in monasteries and convents across Europe as monks and nuns motivated by evangelical teaching left their orders for other vocations and opportunities, including marriage.
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13 mins read|10/06/15(This article first appeared in Modern Reformation and is posted here with permission.)
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10 mins read|09/30/15Just how should we think about our good works in the Christian life of faith as we live that life before others... and before God?
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4 mins read|10/16/14Much of what we do as Christians is a remix. The word of God interacts with our lives as we live out the legacy and mission given by Christ.
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16 mins read|07/28/14My prayer life is, first and foremost, a pitiful and distracting thing and my experience of answers delayed has often felt like Cheech's experience on the bench in this skit with Chong playing the roll of prayer answerer.
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9 mins read|07/03/14We have to trust that there is value in these conversations. They are not valuable only when they can be counted as a program. And what are most programs but attempts to get us to “act like” Christians at some future point of time?
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8 mins read|04/01/14In the public square, concerning public law, policy, and moral norms, debate is best carried out not with reference to that special revelation unique to a particular religion, but by appeal to that natural knowledge of the law possessed by all (even while recognizing human attempts, often successful, to suppress it).
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