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The novel itself A written review here And a video review below
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Fresh for its third season, the North American Lutheran Seminary s podcast Cardigan Collar is debuting a new video format. They re calling this season s theme Generous Confessionalism. It s worth a listen, and a watch. The phrase is a welcome one. Let s see what use can be made of it. Episode 2 is also already out [ ]
Kyle Strobel on Dark Nights of the Soul
This is the third podcast episode I ve ever heard from Kyle Strobel, and now the third I m linking. Another home run.
Is he wrong? An Easter Question
George Lindbeck’s willing to say it: What the good God is doing to the church, it seems to me, is destroying us bit by bit. And I think that God insists God wants us to be united. And destroying each denomination’s identity is precisely the way in which eventually we’ll have to be united. from Postliberal [ ]
Clifford Geertz on Local Knowledge
I have never been able to understand why such comments as “your conclusions, such as they are, only cover two million people [Bali], or fifteen million [Morocco], or sixty-five million [Java], and only over some years or centuries,” are supposed to be criticisms. Of course, one can be wrong, and probably, as often as not, [ ]
Herman Sasse on the present Christ
The Church that Luther believed was the Church of the real presence. … Perhaps there are many among us who have…taken offence that Luther remained so stubborn in the strife over the Lord’s Supper concerning the meaning of the words of institution: ‘This is my body.’ That is not his obstinate nature but his great [ ]
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Didn t ever see myself promoting robot music, but here we are. Human or not, a cool project is a cool project. Lamentations in Blues Ecclesiastes in Blues Habakkuk in Blues
Kyle Strobel on Christian Formation II
Consider giving a listen to this episode from Steve Cuss s podcast Being Human featuring a conversation with the theologian Kyle Strobel available HERE. He s got some thoughtful things to say. Don t miss out. Not the first remarks I ve appreciated from Kyle before. More are available HERE.
The Only Weapon …
Woe to the church that uses other weapons, and would even borrow them from the world! She is no longer a Church of her Lord. No theological learning, no Christian culture, no wise church politicking, and no attempt to win influence in the world conquers the world for Christ and defeats the kingdom of darkness, [ ]
Herman Sasse on whether the Church has a future
Yes. Because Jesus has a future. As Ignatius of Antioch once put it, where Christ is, there is the Church. Do you really think the church is a thing of the past? That to believe in Jesus means to believe in a man or a message of the past? No, if anything has a future [ ]