Thank God That I Am Not Like The (Re)publican
In Jesus’s day, publicans were often tax collectors, and Scripture lumps them in with sinners as in Mark 2: 16: “When the teachers of the Law, who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors [publicans]… ” They were despised and looked down upon as corrupt and greedy. Jesus tells The Parable [...]
Keep Me From Clinging, Lord
Lord, Do not let me be so committed to an idea because it is “mine” that I cling to it when you would have me let it go because it is not yours. If there is any idea that I cling to that is not in keeping with your heart and mind, no matter how [...]
Seasons in the Son: Why I Am Lutheran IV
I am writing this on the eve of spring; as the northern hemisphere transits from the season of death to the season of rebirth, so too the Church transits from the season of Lent to the season of Easter. Because Easter is dated on the lunar calendar used to calculate Passover, we do not always [...]
Of Markets and Men
When are we going to realize that if men are not moral markets can’t be. The idea of markets, of freedom in general, are moral, but their operation will only be as moral as the people who use them. Free markets don’t make men moral; moral men make free markets. I support free markets, but [...]
Why I Am Lutheran–Part III: Song
“Come on and sing, sing, sing, sing, everybody start to sing.” Man, do I love to sing! I took a lot of heat in the clique ridden halls of high school for listening to the kinds of music I did. Imagine a fifteen year old in 1980 walking the halls singing “Do you hear that [...]