The churches now need to teach Christian ethics more explicitly and more thoroughly, because that is where the wider culture will challenge Christian discipleship most powerfully. Continue Reading »
The devout Lutheranism of my ancestors, which so shaped and defined my grandparents and parents, is dead and buried. Continue Reading »
Many evangelical leaders have either downplayed their errors or tried to memory-hole them altogether. But the internet is forever, and Megan Basham has kept the receipts. Continue Reading »
Walz, the first Lutheran to run for vice president, is indeed as progressive as the church to which he belongs. Continue Reading »
Megan Basham joins in to discuss her new book Shepherds for Sale. Continue Reading »
From wisdom regarding philanthropy to the need for churches to do the hard things regarding discipline, there are important lessons here for us all. Continue Reading »
During Sunday evening service we heard many miracle stories, some of them enormously powerful, others less so. Continue Reading »
Shepherds must teach their sheep to understand what the Bible teaches about sexuality, or they leave them to the wolves. Continue Reading »
Speaking to a gymnasium full of high schoolers in 2015, Angela Merkel sought to explain why Germany needed to close its borders to the tide of Syrian refugees. She was brought up short by Reem Sahwil, a refugee girl facing deportation. The girl’s tears accomplished what no lobbyist or newspaper . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew Martens, a career attorney and an evangelical, believes that criminal justice needs a new ethic, specifically, a Christian one. Drawing on a range of theological and biblical texts, he argues that we should “conform such a system to Scripture”—that is, to “Christ’s love for . . . . Continue Reading »
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