April 1, 2021
[1] We did it. We crossed the quarter million mark in numbers of deaths due to Covid 19 in the United States. And just before Thanksgiving. Estimates now include being at over four hundred thousand by Inauguration Day. Someplace in the middle for when Lutheran Social Ethicists gather?[1] [2] With over a hundred and eighty […]
February 1, 2021
[1] This book breaks no new ground and has little to offer cognoscenti. But this is an observation, not a criticism. The authors, a biblical scholar and a religious journalist, aim for a general audience made up of millennials and others who are comfortable with evolution and distance from Christian faith because of its perceived […]
[1] Followers of Luther began debating relationships between faith, ethics, and justification during Luther’s lifetime. Heirs of Luther’s theological vision have never ceased to debate them. Some Lutherans believe that ethical prescriptions beyond freely “serving one’s neighbor” out of a response to the Gospel, constitute works righteousness, leaving believers anxiously wondering if they have done […]
