Posts About Lutheran
Careful, Catholics and Muslims! We Quake!
How Catholics and Muslims choose to relate will have consequences in a world threatened by aggressions, war, and terrorism and in a world where many recognize the need for reconciliation across the boundaries of faiths.
Candidates Victims of 'Gotcha'
Denouncing, renouncing, and distancing have become such common activities that they lose their effect.
King: A Man Between Two Eras
One of the most impressive, profound, and deft aspects of King's approach was his employment of the scriptures of America's two major religions to further reconciliation and justice.
Sex and Race without "ism"
If we would drop the "isms" and forget about lumping others into despisable camps we could address actual problems and work toward actual solutions, leaving stereotypes and myths behind.
Spitzer's Woes: An Ancient Tale in a Modern World
The question implies that this case might reveal something about the state of the present culture in contrast to that in other times. Optimists and moral progressives have little to cheer: we are not rising to new moral heights.
The Worries and Wonders of Technology
I despise spam and the misuses of the internet in blogs which bring out the worst in the worst, but I celebrate the ways friends greet friends, the distant sustain relations, and the hopers spread hope to the disappointed.
In Sickness and In Health
For all their gross flaws, "formal religious groups" tend to be productive of acts of mercy and justice; they are more likely to support voluntary charitable activity than are loners.
Obama is no Huckabee
Obama is less likely to make a public display of his religion or to use it to garner support than are Governor Huckabee and some failed candidates, and if he did either, it would be a deviation from his versions of the Christian heritage(s).
Muslim free speech
As for Islam: like Judaism and Christianity, its texts are ambiguous, on one page speaking up for the dignity and rights of all, including other People of the Book, and on many more pages, serving to squelch other voices.
Which God? Whose God? Huckabee's God?
Huckabee is influenced by "Reconstructionism," which is quite articulate about its aims: formally to replace anything in constitutional law which does not match their view of God's Constitution, and to unfold an amended and revised "God's Constitution."
Greed Gets My Vote
We Jesus-people have heard that we cannot serve the god of material things like money, but we don't pay too much attention to that accent of Jesus, and devote energies to satisfying our greedy impulses which, by definition, cannot be satisfied.
Assimilation, Israel Central Issues
The problems for retaining identity includes when the environment turns at least neutral and at best friendly.
Two Flags and a Cloud of Witnesses
I've studied the Latter-day Saints for decades, and would be hard pressed to name something in its teachings (since 1890) that would be a threat to the republic.
Tense Holidays
Most holidays have some sort of religious cast--even "civil" holidays tend to. Those rooted in particular religious traditions are most likely to induce tension.
You Must Forgive, If . . .
. . . your enemy pleads for forgiveness, gives any signs of sincerity, and especially if she or her shows resolve to make amends or to change.
Torture: No
You don't torture someone "made in the image of God," no matter how despicable he or she has become.
No Excuses for a Generous Society
A generous society, especially one that claims to be influenced by biblical thought, will find ways to provide where other institutions and agencies do not and cannot.
Hallowe'en
When Christians and Jews over-react to phenomena like this, they show more about their outlook--prissy, aggrieved, defensive--than about actual challenges to faith.
That's His Story. What's Yours?
The practices and beliefs of the separate religions "get interesting" in the minds and hearts of billions of people when mediated through the stories.
Life To Come
We have no words, concepts, reaches of imagination to make sense of death in ordinary conceptions.
Religion, Not Religiosity
Let McCain specify exactly what in what part of the Christian tradition moves him and would affect the way he carries out his duties, and we could vote him or it up or down.
No Sects, No Cults
Eventually it became clear that everyone called someone a cult, and the word served few clarifying purposes.
I Don't Know
There are libraries full of answers, none of them informed, because humans do not know the mind of God.
Lutherans Decide Not to Decide
Every Christian church body in the world is torn apart over issues that one can grasp in two terms, "sex" and "authority."
