IntroductionThe destruction of men is the most significant event of the last fifty years and worth the most significant attention of the church. That’s why I was delighted to finally read the helpful ...  Read More

Every man is a reformer; only it so often happens that he has the wrong reform. Except for Martin Luther. His 95 theses especially target the practice of selling indulgences. What are indulgences and ...  Read More

The problem of “stuff” in modern American life is not that we have too much of it, but we have the wrong view of it. Put again, the problem isn’t stuff, but our misuse of it. What is stuff? The Englis...  Read More

IntroductionThe central event of the New Testament is not the overthrow of the Old Testament, but the overthrow of death by way of Jesus Christ’s resurrection, which forever linked the two testaments,...  Read More

IntroductionThe relationship between the church and the state is a controversial subject in the current climate. It was also a controversial subject during the Reformation. Joel Biermann has written a...  Read More

IntroductionThe murder of Christ is not a fragment of a larger theology. It is the larger theology that touches every fragment. In the death and resurrection of Christ, one all-embracing power knocks ...  Read More

“In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were...  Read More

IntroductionMost conservative Christians justly despise critical race theory (CRT). They see its spider-like tendencies to prey upon naïve citizens, inject them with emotional toxins, and consume thei...  Read More

IntroductionEvangelicals exhibit a mysterious suspicion of the assurance of salvation. And so it is that lots of Christians struggle with a lack of assurance. They have anxiety about the final state o...  Read More

It's hard to date the beginning of the madness. Maybe you trace it to the death of George Floyd in May of 2020, the shooting of Michael Brown in August of 2014, the creation of Black Lives Matters in ...  Read More

IntroductionThe Industrial Revolution changed the world. In some ways, the changes have been good. In some ways, they haven’t been. The changes are more than just HVAC units and electricity. The Indus...  Read More

IntroductionThe inner ring is the sort of club where it is not easy to tell who is inside and who is outside. There is no formal admission procedure and no protocol for expulsion. There is usually a c...  Read More