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The Bubble Always Bursts
Every bubble based on artificially low interest will eventually burst. It is not a matter of "if;" it is a matter of "when." What do I mean by artificially low interest? I mean interest that has been...
View ArticleTwain on Juries
In his [Alexander the Great] day news could not travel fast, and hence he could easily find a jury of honest, intelligent men who had not heard of the case they were called to try--but in our day of...
View ArticleGrace Joke
A man dies and goes to heaven. St. Peter meets him at the pearly gates.St. Peter says, "Here's how it works. You need 100 points to make it into heaven. You tell me all the good things you've done, and...
View ArticleTheology Justifies the Church
Yo, I'm still alive. I was writing some long post about how one of the chief purposes of a church's theology is self-justification, and I realized I just don't care all that much. It was probably going...
View ArticleSome Advantages of Humans
Of course humans are smarter than animals, but you've got to wonder how we became the dominant species when we're so slow and weak. This article argues that we didn't really become distance runners...
View ArticleChristmas Eve With Lutheran Baptists
I made the mistake of going to an LCMS church for Christmas Eve service. I had originally planned to go to a Catholic church, since few Lutherans do a late night Christmas Eve, but I saw that one not...
View ArticleObservation
If you don't want the government to tell you what to do with your body, you're a liberal. If you don't want the government to tell you what to do with your property, you're a conservative. If you don't...
View ArticleMore Two Kingdoms
I don't feel like I really got a good answer about who "the state" is that we're supposed to obey in the Lutheran "two kingdoms" doctrine. The problem is with the nature of the state itself. The state...
View ArticleArticle 15
The irony of “closed communion” is that it presumes that anyone outside of the Lutheran confession would shatter the altar fellowship, while at the same time ignoring what goes on, often right under...
View ArticleThe Sacrament of Marriage
I recently had the, um, privilege of sitting through a presentation on the Catholic doctrine of marriage. I'm not going to critique the Catholic sacramental system per se (Rube Goldberg has already...
View ArticleFormula of Concord
Not that this has happened recently, but I've experienced it, and I'll bet some of you have, too. If you know an LCMS pastor or seminary student who derides the Formula of Concord's Articles IV ("Good...
View ArticleWrapping Up My Catholic Experience
In case you couldn't read between the lines, I spend a lot of time hanging out with Catholics. I even go to the papist mass on a semi-regular basis. That's why it's the #1 thing I've been talking about...
View ArticleAlso
True fact: If the Roman Catholic Church wanted to be Lutheran, they'd be way better at it than the Lutherans.
View ArticleArticle 9
I'm going to an LCMS church that actually supports foreign mission work. I didn't even know that was a thing we did! Now, if only we'd support more mission work in Latin America, where in real life,...
View ArticleHeinlein Quote
“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, now and then- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently...
View ArticleArticle 6
Muslim students are suing Catholic University because, to their surprise, it turned out to be Catholic.
View ArticleTechnical Orthodoxy Gives No Cover to Crappy Preaching
Repost of a Facebook comment:Here's what I mean. I have heard a lot of technically "orthodox" Lutheran sermons. I don't go to churches where they preach the moralistic therapeutic garbage. I care about...
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