Month: June 2020

There was a rise of what was called “false liberalism” that arose after the Reformation.  It was called “Socinianism”.  This is from Wikipedia so take it with salt but it is pretty close. The Socinians...

I am still fascinated by an article from 1939 by W. Arndt talking about the challenges to the church back them. He writes “In our age the tendency which cares little about what a person believes and teaches and which in...

In 1939 the Theological Journal Lehre und Wehre became, as I understand it, Concordia Theological Monthly.  That was a long time ago and even journals today wonder if they can survive, or should, a theologian by the name of...

Fightings and fears within, without, is a pretty good description of life in the church.  Lutheran theology to my mind is nuanced.  Imagine growing up when removal of prayer was going on in the schools and people, Christian...

I remember writing this 3 years ago but I wanted to bring it back because of statues and portraits being removed and military bases needing to be renamed.  And before you have a knee jerk reaction  I have no truck or sympathy...