Some Australian states are regulating what you are allowed to pray for and what pastors can say in their counseling sessions and sermons.
Some Australian states are regulating what you are allowed to pray for and what pastors can say in their counseling sessions and sermons.
While working on my new book on "Technology and Vocation," I had an uncanny, ironic, meta, and scary "conversation" with ChatGPT that I had to share with you.
The Pope has died. Illinois Bill Would Restrict Homeschooling. And Poland's Per Capita Economy to Surpass Japan's.
Easter Greetings from our friend George Herbert!
The popular Good Friday hymn "My Song Is Love Unknown" is based on two poems by George Herbert. I quote my contribution to "Lutheran Service Book: Companion to the Hymns," in which I unpack the hymn.
The "death of God" is a claim made by Nietzsche and arch-liberal theologians who embrace what they call "Christian atheism." But Luther and the Lutheran Confessions say that God did die on the cross--for us--by virtue of the Two Natures of Christ. What are the implications?
I owe a lot to the great Christian poet George Herbert: my dissertation, my career, my writing books, my becoming a Lutheran. Every Maundy Thursday, I return to my favorite of his poems: "The Agony," about Christ in the Garden and the magnitude of sin and love.
I quite randomly stumbled upon a passage from The Book of Sirach (a.k.a., Ecclesiasticus) in the Apocrypha that addresses vocation in a manner that blew me away.
Christopher D. Raymond looks at the recent data about the decline in church affiliation and comes to a stark conclusion: "Orthodox believers stay, while those with unorthodox views leave."
There are two "Last Supper" movies. Even tourists won't be allowed to worship in China. And Netflix plans a female Aslan.
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