Johann Von Staupitz had no idea what he was getting into when he first met Martin Luther in 1506. Luther had recently left his legal studies at the University of
(To read part one, click here.) It must have been over twenty years ago now that I was sitting with my family in church, and the “Praise” band started rocking
In the midst of a season that calls to mind the birth of the Christ child, and the upheaval in the world of the occupation by the Roman Empire surrounding
And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” (Genesis 2:18) My wife, Leigh, and I celebrated our forty-fourth wedding
A year and a half ago or so, I wrote an essay about something I called “Trumpamentalism.” I wasn’t really trying to invent another clever political insult. I was trying
What does it mean to minister? While the universal church may not have arrived at a definitive answer, I have some thoughts. First of all, in the New Testament directive
I love my 2013 Hyundai Tucson, which we bought new. It has 112,000 miles and has needed no major repairs. Until a recent beautiful summer day here in Martinez, California.
Two Sacraments Most Protestants practice two ordinances upon which we can all agree to a certain extent. My own denomination observes three ordinances, and both the Roman Catholic and the
There is a muted wistfulness in Springfield, Illinois, that always seems to be hiding just below the surface of this town. Springfield possesses a kind of elegiac beauty, as though
Some readers may remember the “satanic panic” over secular music in the 1980s. On April 27, 1982, at the California Assembly’s Consumer Protection and Toxics Committee meeting in Sacramento, Calif.,
Several of the people I have been working with professionally have recently declared their commitment to the Christian faith to be absolute. They have complete buy-in, they have proclaimed. I
As the dog Peabody told the boy Sherman in “Peabody’s Improbable History” on TV’s “The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends” in the late 1950s and 1960s, “Every dog
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