Eighty Easters Ago: The Mass Resignation of Lutheran Pastors from the Nazified Church of Norway
On Easter Sunday, 1942, the moment of truth arrived. Ninety-three percent of the clergy resigned from the Church of Norway in order to fulfill their oaths of ordination and serve the people whom God had entrusted to their care.
A Theological Evaluation of Hallmark Christmas Movies
The Hallmark Christmas movie reflects a culture that has trained women to justify their self-worship and covetousness by cloaking it in G-rated sweetness.
Academics the Wittenberg Way
Academics the Wittenberg way isn’t incidental to Lutheranism; it’s the natural intellectual and academic expression and extension of its devotion to its own source: Scripture itself.
What Is Christian Culture?
As practice, culture is not an inert reportable fact, but a living activity to be undertaken. For this reason, it makes as little sense to speak of “cultures” in the plural as it would to speak of “architectures” or “gardenings.”
What Is Education?
The student of Latin and Greek classics had opportunity to reflect on the entire breadth of things that had engaged man, from theology to farming to poetry to medicine, in a continuous written record over thousands of years.
Caesar’s Friend
Just as Pilate held onto his body, goods, and honor, and kept Caesar as his friend, although he knew that Christ was being done an injustice, so it happens among many people in our day.
The Self-Evident Proposition, Part 1
If my explanation is logical and true, it follows that only Christian education delivered throughout the course of human lifetimes—and delivered with Lutheran attentiveness to the verbatim Word of God—is the way to know the self-evident truth for ourselves.
Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker: Lutheran Training for the Skilled Trades
There is our gap: we have no Lutheran trade school to train men in both piety and the skills needed to earn a good living; we have no network for connecting young Lutheran men with Lutheran business owners in the skilled trades who can provide them apprenticeships.
Wokism
Wokism is not woke. It is deep darkness and spiritual blindness. Jesus Christ is the light of the world.
Why Lutherans Need Classical Colleges
Today, the great classical preoccupations—the True, the Good, and the Beautiful—are not just theoretical ideals. They are survival skills, especially for Lutherans.
