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The 1586 Colloquy of Montbeliard: Reformed-Lutheran Theological Excavations

When one surveys the broad landscape of Christianity today, confessional Lutheran and Reformed Christians share significant doctrinal acreage. This is something to celebrate and leverage amidst challenges in the broader Christian Church and society at large. Yet once the theologian’s shovel starts excavating below the surface, significant divergence at key points is found, revealing chasms […]

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  • Whither Political Conservatism and American Christianity

    Thursday, 17 September 2020 by

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    In 1981, when Ronald Reagan became president of the United States, Christians had an easy time identifying as political conservatives.  After all, Reagan checked all the boxes of movement conservatives while showing friendliness to families and churches.  He was firmly anti-Communist, a proponent of limited government and reduced spending (except for the Pentagon), and surprisingly […]

  • The Spiritual Precision of Jesus

    Wednesday, 16 September 2020 by

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    “For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him; but the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him; and you, seeing this, did not even feel remorse afterward so as to believe him.” Matthew 21:32 It is sometimes easy to miss the surgical precision in the words of […]

  • The Apostle Peter Parker and Spider-Man 2

    Tuesday, 15 September 2020 by

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    In the previous post, we considered Spider-Man as a type of liturgical hero, who learns the meaning of the proverbial words which guide him into his heroic actions. Because it is an origin story, the original Spider-Man is a relatively complete hero’s journey, which is part of what made it appealing to consider in terms […]

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  • A Hero’s Liturgy in Spider-Man (2002)

    The concept of the hero’s journey posits that a successful story maps its events over key psychological experiences necessary to formation of identity. In formal worship, the structure of the liturgy maps different aspects of communal and personal spiritual identity around the teachings of Christ and the significance of His life. The liturgy is thus […]

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    Thursday, 10 September, 2020 by

  • Elisabeth of the Palatinate and the Mind-Body Problem

    In 1643, Princess Elisabeth of the Palatinate asked the philosopher René Descartes for some explanations about his theories on the distinction about the body and the mind – the same mind he had made the starting point for the confirmation of all knowledge in his Cogito ergo sum argument (“I think, therefore I am”). Elisabeth, […]

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    Wednesday, 09 September, 2020 by

From the Archives

  • Plagiarizing the Lord's Prayer

    Ben Franklin’s oft-repeated motto, “Remember that time is money,” stands in need of a serious twentieth-century upgrade. Today, text is money. Intellectual property rights are the new cash cow, not the time clock. It’s a shame Jesus didn’t have a financial advisor to counsel him on such matters. If only he would have trademarked John […]

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    Tuesday, 01 November, 2011 by

  • Samuel Davies on the Two Kingdoms

    In the context of the clash of European empires for the American colonies, Presbyterian preacher Samuel Davies (1723-61) turned the colonists’ attention to Christ’s kingdom as “the best refuge from this boisterous world” of violence and domination.1 “My kingdom is not of this world,” Jesus said, as much as to say, “I do not deny […]

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    Friday, 30 October, 2009 by

  • Does Character Count?

    The question of whether the character of our political leaders really matters is frequently asked. Perhaps it is frequently asked because the answer is not necessarily obvious. On the one hand, many, if not most, people, and certainly most Christians, instinctively believe that character must certainly matter. The idea that those who are entrusted with […]

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    Thursday, 03 May, 2007 by

From the Print Edition

  • Letter from the Editor

    One of the reasons for the wisdom literature in the Old Testament, we are told in Proverbs 1:4, is “to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth.” The discretion that wisdom bequeaths to those who take up abode with her is not simply a bare knowledge of right and wrong (though […]

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    Tuesday, 01 September, 2020 by

  • Coronavirus, Crisis, and the Church: A Message from India

    This past spring, we watched the coronavirus pandemic hit the world around. At the time of this writing, the globe has seen over 7 million people affected by this pandemic and over 400,000 have died. My own country, India, has crossed the 200,000 mark of cases and over 6,000 people have died. America has almost […]

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    Tuesday, 01 September, 2020 by

  • Parenting Through Puberty

    Most of us recall the recent defection of former “Young, Restless, and Reformed” (YRR) author and ex-senior pastor Joshua Harris. A homeschool movement leader’s kid who went on to become a leading figure of the evangelical sexual purity and “courtship” movement with his 1997 monster best-seller I Kissed Dating Goodbye, followed by Boy Meets Girl: […]

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    Tuesday, 01 September, 2020 by

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